Re: JSH: Revocation of a Ph.D

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:38:29 GMT

In article <20040719075606.05051.00001444@mb-m24.aol.com> mensanator@aol.compost (Mensanator) writes:
> >Subject: Re: JSH: Revocation of a Ph.D
> >From: "*** T. Winter" ***.Winter@cwi.nl
> >Date: 7/19/04 5:37 AM Central Daylight Time
> >Message-id: <I13HHu.D9A@cwi.nl>
...
> > > >Two real live URLs
> > > >to try with IE:
> > > > <http://www.cwi.nl/~***/private/\test.html>
> > > > <http://www.cwi.nl/~***/private/t\est.html>
> > > >both do exist.
> > >
> > > Are you sure?
> >
> >Yup.
>
> The web pages are named \test.html and t\est.html, i.e.,
> the backslahes are part of the file name? They are publically
> accessible?

Yes, indeed, they are.

> > > When I pasted the above into the address bar and hit [Go], it changed to
> > > http://www.cwi.nl/~***/private/t/est.html
> > > and could not locate the the page.
> >
> >In that case your browser is broken. Both do exist and both URLs are
> >valid.
>
> Then you are wrong when you say IE tries the original spelling
> and starts converting backslashes if it can't locate the document,
> otherwise it would work for me. The conversion takes place first.
> I tried this with both IE 5 and 6.

The conversion does *not* take place with IE 5 on the Mac, which is
the only IE I can try. 

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