Re: Accessing my home web page... Help!

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunge_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:53:11 +0200

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:16:54 +0000, Jens.Toerring wrote:
> To further confuse the issue, some webbrowsers seem to convert the
> backslashes in an URL to slashes automatically before sending the
> request to the server, making it seem to work (I guess IE does
> that). But when you try to use the same URL with a browser that
> doesn't do that (and there's no reason for that except to cater
> for broken HTML created by lots of Windows applications) then you
> must expect that it won't work. So, never use backslashes instead
> of slashes in URLs (or in links in the HTML code), it is bound to
> fail since it doesn't conform to the HTTP standard, see RFC 2616
> that defines the HTTP protocol and RFC 2396 that tells how URLs
> (or URIs, to be precise) must look like. Backslashes as path
> separators are something that's used for DOS and Windows but not
> everywhere else.

Here's a quick test of your browser, on a server that understands
backslash characters, and treats them as non-special characters
distinct from forward slashes:

http://theanna.org/slash/

Phil

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