Re: [SLUG] A question of browsers

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2006 - 00:24:28 EST

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Paul M Foster wrote:

> 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?

I have two files:

eben@pc:~/web$ \ls -l brows*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 eben eben 185 Jan 13 2003 browser\test.html

browser:
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 eben eben 174 Jan 3 2003 test.html

The link in the main page is to "browser\test.html". The first file
contains the text "Your browser passes through \s unchanged" and the second,
"Your browser changes \s to /s". Opera 8.5.1 shows "Your browser changes \s
to /s" and Firefox 1.5.0.3 "Your browser passes through \s unchanged." HTH. 

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