359355 - The Firefox gets a wrong link!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187930

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Minh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

I enter the site: http://www.aao.hcmut.edu.vn/Sinhvien/Diem.html
I want to open the link embeded with the SQL logo (the green logo in the right bottom of page, next to the blue DBF logo). But Firefox gets a wrong link, it links to http://www.aao.hcmut.edu.vn/Sinhvien/%5C%5Cwww.hcmut.edu.vn%5Caao%5Caao_bd.php
but the actually link should be http://www.hcmut.edu.vn/aao/aao_bd.php . When I use IE6 to open this page, and click the SQL logo, it links to the right link.
If I use firefox, and type the address http://www.hcmut.edu.vn/aao/aao_bd.php . Firefox open the right link.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the site: http://http://www.aao.hcmut.edu.vn/Sinhvien/Diem.html
(use FireFox)
2.Click on the green SQL logo (the logo in the right bottom of the page) 
3.It links to http://www.aao.hcmut.edu.vn/Sinhvien/%5C%5Cwww.hcmut.edu.vn%5Caao%5Caao_bd.php
and the browse notice an error: HTTP 404 not found
(But the actually link should be http://www.hcmut.edu.vn/aao/aao_bd.php)
Actual Results:  
The browser display the message:
"HTTP Error 404

404 Not Found

The Web server cannot find the file or script you asked for. Please check the URL to ensure that the path is correct.

Please contact the server's administrator if this problem persists."

Expected Results:  
go to link: http://www.hcmut.edu.vn/aao/aao_bd.php
When I use IE, repeat the steps below, it takes me to the right link http://www.hcmut.edu.vn/aao/aao_bd.php

Comment 1

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

The URL on the page contains backslashes (http:\\www.hcmut.edu.vn\aao\aao_bd.php), which are not valid per RFC 2396. Because of this, they are encoded to %5C making it a relative link.

-> invalid

Comment 2

[Minh]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The URL on the page contains backslashes
> (http:\\www.hcmut.edu.vn\aao\aao_bd.php), which are not valid per RFC 2396.
> Because of this, they are encoded to %5C making it a relative link.
> 
> -> invalid
> 
But when I use IE open the URL http://www.aao.hcmut.edu.vn/Sinhvien/Diem.html , the IE can get a right link (it gets this slash: "/", not backslash "\". And, please tell me how I can resolve this problem.

Comment 3

[Mardeg]

This are the results on clicking that link in various other browsers:

Hv3: Error dialog - Missing host part: http:///\\www.hcmut.edu.vn\aao\aao_bd.php
Dillo: No action on click
OffbyOne: Same 404 error as Firefox

Please contact the server's administrator as suggested and let them know these results so they can correct the badly coded link on that page.

Comment 4

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

Contact the webmaster and tell them to fix their broken site.

Comment 5

[Minh]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This are the results on clicking that link in various other browsers:
> 
> Hv3: Error dialog - Missing host part:
> http:///\\www.hcmut.edu.vn\aao\aao_bd.php
> Dillo: No action on click
> OffbyOne: Same 404 error as Firefox
> 
> Please contact the server's administrator as suggested and let them know these
> results so they can correct the badly coded link on that page.
> 
   No, when I use the Internet Explorer browser, nothing wrong: when I use IE, click on SQL logo,it leads me to the site http://www.hcmut.edu.vn/aao/aao_bd.php

Comment 6

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

(In reply to comment #5)
>    No, when I use the Internet Explorer browser, nothing wrong: when I use IE,
> click on SQL logo,it leads me to the site
> http://www.hcmut.edu.vn/aao/aao_bd.php
> 

IE is wrong - read the RFC in comment 1. This IS NOT Firefox or Gecko issue.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187930 ***