Bug 34883 – Backslash is converted to Forward Slash

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: WebKit Qt

When using QWebView to display reports and customizing the HREF value of the <A> tag to have a backslash within it, then QWebView is converting it to a forward slash. 

For example an A tag such as:
<a href="abcd\efghi">my link</a>

Gets interpreted by QWebView as:
<a href="abcd/efghi">my link</a> 

This can be reproduced by saving the link above in an html file and opening that html file in the browser demo located under yourQtVersion/demos.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Yes, KURL converts backslashes into slashes for most URL schemes. What is the problem with this?

Hi,

This is an issue since we are using the the HREF value for our own internal purposes. For this, the forward slash and backslash are treated differently and used to keep track of different properties held within the link.

Is there any sort of workaround or way to escape this? I have tried \\ but it doesn't seem to work either.

Thanks!

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I don't have sufficient context to give an advice. It's not even clear if the URLs are sent over the wire, or only used internally by some C/C++ code. Generally, data that shouldn't be sent over the wire is encoded as URL fragment (after a "#" character). But for HTML, this can conflict with anchors. One can also use a custom URL scheme instead of file: or http:, and encode the data in arbitrary ways.

For help on using WebKit, please see <http://webkit.org/contact.html>. Closing for now, since there is no indication that this is a bug yet. Please feel free to reopen or comment if you believe that this needs to be tracked as a WebKit bug.