Re: Should mozilla accept backslashes in URL's?

[Bernd Khalil]

> (which can be found at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt).  I've
> skimmed the RFC and don't see anywhere where they explicitly state that
> the "\" is not to be used.  However in every example that they do
> provide (which are quite numerous), they use a "/".

But they *do* state that path separator is a "/". Have a look at section 
3, "URI Syntactic Components".
Also see just above part 3, characters deemed unwise, including (you may 
guess) the "\", which would need to be escaped to be part of a URI.