- From: Ben Niven-Jenkins <ben@niven-jenkins.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:46:42 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>, httpbis <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 4 Feb 2011, at 11:13, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 04.02.2011 11:40, Ben Niven-Jenkins wrote: >> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attabspathwin >> >> Firefox => \foo.html >> Chrome => \\foo.html >> Safari => \\foo.html > > But this is not; apparently those UAs consider "\" a legitimate character in a filename. > > I believe that's a very bad idea. The handling of file names with a "\" in on Mac OS X is somewhat erratic. You can save a file from a "GUI" application with \ in the fileanme, and at least some applications will open them (I only tried with TextEdit and MS Word) but while you can see them with an ls in a shell you get a "no such file/directory" error if you try access one. If you create a file with a \ in the filename from the shell the \ gets stripped out. Firefox has some inconsistent behaviour - it won't open a file that starts with a \ and just presents a blank page but will open a file with a filename of the form foo\bar I didn't try any other browsers. Ben
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