- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:28:07 +0200
At 3:13 PM +0100 UTC, on 4/11/07, Gervase Markham 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 Be surpirsed: <http://santek.no-ip.org/~st/tests/backslash/> I've no idea how many sites rely on this, but given that Safari copied this behaviour apparently Apple found the problem big enough to bother. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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