Konqueror and "\" in links

Nicolas Goutte nicolasg at snafu.de
Tue Jan 28 14:16:35 GMT 2003


(CCing kfm-devel)

Yes, even if it is brain-dead, it would be nice.

Personally, I would suggest doing it in <a> to keep KURL free from such 
hacking, as somebody might really need the \ as character in another context.

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 15:04, Stefan Hetzl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On some websites <a href="......">-Tags can be found that contain "\"
> characters instead of "/" characters to indicate the directory structure
> (for an example see: http://www.univie.ac.at/publizistik/karmasin/mmf.html
> - the links underneath "Vorlesungsunterlagen").
> AFAIK this is not correct html but it would be nice if konqueror could
> handle such links by automatically replacing "\" by "/" in URLs (IE does
> that). I would implement the necessary changes, but I am not sure where to
> do that. Should this be corrected in khtml (while parsing the <a
> href="...">-tag) or in konqueror while opening the url ?
>
> Thanks for your comments/hints/suggestions,
>
> Stefan Hetzl
>
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