348487 - Firefox doesn't allow the http:// protocol in page links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64488

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[ajiadic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

Because my page uses PHP for the menu and all files are in subfolders, I use php code that reads a file and prints it.  This is the code for the link

<a href="http:\\leakypipe.fileplace.biz\about.html">About Us</a>

Firefox interprets this as "http://leakypipe.fileplace.biz/%5C%5Cleakypipe.fileplace.biz%5Cabout%5Cindex.php"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to my page
2.Click on one of the links

Actual Results:  
I got a server error that said the requested page was not found

Expected Results:  
Gone to the link's href

I happen to notice that the link uses backslashes, and it should use forward slashes. ( \, not /). I think that is contributing to the problem, but firefox should turn all backslashes into forward slashes

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

RFC 2396 forbids the backslash from being used in URIs and requires that user agents escape it (\ = %5C). If you're using PHP, you should just use str_replace() to change the backslashes to forwardslashes.

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