Browsers and (back)slashes.

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:37 pm

continued from http://pcpuzzle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=193710#193710

billy bob wrote:I have reloaded the page, but I don't know what a browser is

If its the internet, then I have opened a new one.

If its not then please tell me what it is.

Its still not working

The browser is indeed the program you use to go on internet. In my case it's Internet Explorer. There are also Firefox or Google Chrome and probably many others.

What program do you use to go on internet?

billy bob · Post by **billy bob** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:49 pm

Mozilla firefox.

EDIT: hmmm.... it seems to work on Internet explorer!

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:58 pm

OK, I copied all the 7 links under: Wonderland Adventures - Level Solutions

Wonderland Adventures:

List of all STAR locations (and solutions)
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/nutters/WA/WAstars.htm
List of all TOKEN locations
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/nutters/WA/WAtokens.htm
Maps of Wonderland
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/nutters/WA/WAmaps.htm
How to Use the Shards
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/nutters/WA/WAshards.htm

WA: Mysteries of Fire Island

List of all STAR locations (and solutions)
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/nutters/ ... Istars.htm
List of all ORB locations
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/nutters/ ... FIorbs.htm
List of all MAP locations
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/nutters/ ... FImaps.htm

I don't see any backslash. Do those links work for you?

EDIT:

billy bob wrote:Mozilla firefox.

EDIT: hmmm.... it seems to work on Internet explorer!

I never used firefox, so I don't know what's the problem then.

billy bob · Post by **billy bob** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:01 pm

Those links worked because the slash is right.

Thanks!

chrise · Post by **chrise** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:29 pm

Marinus wrote:I never used firefox, so I don't know what's the problem then.

Basically, URLs use / rather than \ as the path separator. (This is due to their origins in UNIX-like systems.)
URLs are not supposed to contain \ at all - unless it is encoded as %5C, in which case on most servers it will be treated as just another character in the filename, not a directory indicator. This seems to be what Firefox does if \ is placed in a URL.
However, Internet Explorer apparently replaces \ in the URL with / - this is presumably because it was designed for Windows where \ is used as the directory separator, and so people kept typing \ in the URL.
Thus a URL containing \ will behave differently on Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:39 pm

Thanks for the explanation Chrise. I knew there are some tokens that are not accepted in a URL; such as a space has to be a %20 if I'm right. However, a \ never can be in a filename, for the reason you just gave, it's used for folders on a local computer.

Therefore, when I copied and pasted the links which contains a \, probably Windows automaticly replaces the \ into a /. So I never saw a \ in those links, not even in the statusbar at the bottom of IE.

bround · Post by **bround** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:07 am

I using Mozilla Firefox.

billy bob · Post by **billy bob** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:24 am

YAY, its working now!