Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Peter Todd wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 09:49:13AM -0700, Vasile Surducan wrote:
> > > http://www.romanblack.com/binclk.htm
> > 
> > Is it just me or are the images broken? :(
> 
> It seems Firefox can't handle encoded URLs.

No, Firefox "handles" encoded URLs just fine.

> I can get to the images by copying the image location, say
> "http://www.romanblack.com/.%5Cbinclock%5Cbinclk01.gif" and replacing
> "%5C" with "/". This then becomes
> "http://www.romanblack.com/./binclock/binclk01.gif", which works.

BUT ... 0x5C isn't '/', it's '\'.

'/' is 0x2F.

The problem is that Roman has used '\' as the path separator his image
URLs, which probably works just fine when he tests it on his local
(Windows) machine. However, the web server from which he's serving the
images to the rest of us doesn't like it.

> FWIW, IE decodes the image URLs correctly and displays the images.

Firefox is being "strict" and using the URL exactly as presented ... as it
should, really.

However, this problem is so prevalent that other browsers, such as IE and
Opera, automatically translate '\' to '/' before sending a URL back to the
server, thereby hiding the underlying problem.

-- Dave Tweed
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