[whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes
Kornel Lesinski
kornel at osiolki.net
Wed Apr 11 12:00:57 PDT 2007
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:13:09 +0100, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org>
wrote:
>> Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in
>> URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for
>> compatibility for quite a few websites.
>
> I would be rather surprised if that were true, given that Firefox
> doesn't do it and I've never come across a website which broke for that
> reason. But maybe I live a sheltered life.
Working for osiolki.net (site that blacklists IE-only websites), I've come
across a few.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:osiolki.net+backslash&filter=0
(+ there are 4 more non-public cases).
--
regards, Kornel Lesiński
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