Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> Chuck Hast wrote:
>>> I have been looking at some web pages, and I notice that at times ff
>>> does
>>> not display some gif files that are on one page, but does on another.
>>
>> The first uses standard URL syntax for its GIF URLs, e.g.:
>>
>> http://www.k3pgp.org/Construction%5CFrontend%5Cpreamp.gif
>>
>> The %5C translates to a backslash. So Microsoft Frontpage has
>> generated the URLs to have this syntax. The problem is that this is
>> *not* where the graphics are. They are (e.g.) here:
>>
>> http://www.k3pgp.org/Construction/Frontend/preamp.gif
>
> I put a link on my page to determine how a given browser treats \s in
> URLs. Go to my page at http://royalty.no-ip.org:81/ and look for the
> text "Does your browser convert \s in URLs to /s?" maybe halfway down.
> As determined, Opera does, FF doesn't. That is, if my test is accurate.
>
Not sure what you mean. I'm using Firefox 2.0, and I get the "Passed!"
page, meaning that my browser passes through backslashes unchanged. If I
were using Opera (which I don't have) would that mean that it *changes*
the backslashes to slashes?
Paul
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