- From: Philip Taylor <excors+whatwg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:56:29 +0100
On 11/04/07, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote: > Geoffrey Sneddon 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. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64488 has quite a few examples of people finding broken websites caused by backslashes. (But maybe some/most of those examples have been fixed after being told that they were wrong and that Firefox's behaviour wasn't going to change?) -- Philip Taylor excors at gmail.com
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