Thanks Wirt, it's all forward slashes from now on!!

-----Original Message-----
From:   WirtAtmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, January 15, 1998 12:37 PM
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Subject:        Re: Web server on HP3000 - questions

Shirley MacLaughlin asks about HTML pages hosted on an HP3000 but created on a
PC:

> If so, what is your solution to the internal links problem (back slash on the
> PC, forward slash everywhere else)?

The solution is: use the forward slash everywhere religiously, even on the PC.
All  of the common web browsers are now smart enough to autotranslate the
forward slash into a back slash when the HTML page is resident on a PC.

However, some of the browsers are not smart enough to perform the opposite --
translating a PC's back slash into a forward slash when the data comes from a
non-PC host, thus when you move the HTML page from the PC to its final resting
place, it no longer works.

I've been bitten by this bug/feature a couple of times, so I know its real. It
can confuse the daylights out of you for hours the first time it happens to
you, especially if you've used both reverse and forward slashes in your code,
but it's also easily overcome -- if you can learn to avoid hitting the reverse
slash key.

Wirt Atmar