335088 - Interpreting "\\"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64488

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Marco Zanon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060418 Firefox/1.0.8 (Ubuntu package 1.0.8)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060418 Firefox/1.0.8 (Ubuntu package 1.0.8)

Some (x)html programmers create pages with non-standard links, with relative paths and "\\" in the middle.
I suppose they're developing under Microsoft Windows and testing the page with Internet Explorer, which may unfortunately parse their page as valid so that they don't see the error.

I'd like to see an option for parsing these malformed links, i.e.:
http://www.chevrolet.it/local/press/%5C%5Cwww.chevroletsudoku.com
would become:
http://www.chevroletsudoku.com

Thanks,

MZ


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

This has beem requested and rejected many times before. If you have problems with a specific site, complain to the site author about this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64488 ***