47380 - URL: not correctly loaded/parsed (?) when directories delimited using backslash

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 34239

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Inaky Perez Gonzalez]

When browsing pages which refer to URIs using backslashes (\) instead of forward
slashes (/), mozilla, as in the case of the URL givem, doesn´t render the image
correctly, printing the name instead.

Comment 1

[Gagan]

backslashes = evil, frontslashes = good. 
cc'ing andreas.

Comment 2

[Andreas Otte]

Yes, if we ever want to handle this cases where people are unable (or unwilling)
to read the RFCs about how to build correct URLs, we will need a very different
way to create fixup URIs. Bug 32859 is about the exact opposite. Don't handle
URIs with \ instead of / with replacing \ by /. Future is the correct setting.

Comment 3

[Hervé Renault]

i just came accross a site with jobs offers. its search form has images for the
submit button. and those images have \ in their URIs. <input type="image"
src="..\gif\go.gif">. you get the point... i could not submit the form, i could
not see the job opportunities in Mozilla. i had to launch NN4.x :(

i know \'s in URIs are evil but i would prefer to have Mozilla support it rather
than having to get back to this old 4.x.

Comment 4

[Eric Pollmann]

More discussion of this problem, and the location of the code that does this
fixup for Win32 only, is on bug 34239.  Marking this a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34239 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

VERIFIED/dupe
The dupe chain ends in bug 32895.