Congratulations for bringing light into the dark room

Last update: $Date: 2003/03/02 01:15:07 $


It has been brought to my attention that some broken web sites use a backslash (\) instead of a slash (/) as a directory delimiter in URLs. That's wrong, of course: a backslash is not a directory delimiter. Worse, some browsers assume that that's the problem and change a backslash into a slash.

Normally you will have linked to this page via a link to http://www.lemis.com/why\backslashes\are\not\slashes.html, but if your browser is broken you have probably made it via http://www.lemis.com/why%5Cbackslashes%5Care%5Cnot%5Cslashes.html. These broken browsers will lead you to
http://www.lemis.com/why/backslashes/are/not/slashes.html if you select
http://www.lemis.com/why\backslashes\are\not\slashes.html.


Valid XHTML 1.0!

$Id: why\\backslashes\\are\\not\\slashes.html,v 1.3 2003/03/02 01:15:07 grog Exp $