Handling of forward and backward slash in URL

Most of us use forward slash in URLs e.g., href=”/2005/200501/” – I recently came across a site with url href=” \ 2005 \ 200501 \ ”

Both of the above urls are generated as /2005/200501/ in IE, while in Firefox, former is /2005/200501/ while latter becomes /2005/200501/20050126/\2005\200501\20050126\

See http://www.carnatic.com/2005/200501/20050126/

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2) Check if you can reproduce the bug in Mozilla (Application Suite) >>> Bug is reproducable in the latest builds of both Firefox and Mozilla

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Enter a bug : “50% of the bugs filed in Bugzilla are duplicates” – Oh !

searched with “slash” and there seems to be nothing similar…

Bugzilla Bug 279904 – URLs with backward slash generating invalid links

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