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Bug 27517 - file: consider not supporting vertical bar Windows drive letter quirk for relative URLs
Summary: file: consider not supporting vertical bar Windows drive letter quirk for rel...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: URL (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+urlspec
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Depends on: 27518
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Reported: 2014-12-04 15:32 UTC by Sam Ruby
Modified: 2015-08-14 09:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Sam Ruby 2014-12-04 15:32:07 UTC 
This bug is opened on behalf of David Walp, based on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014OctDec/0505.html

Original comment:

Standardizing something not used that is not in anyone's interest.
Comment 1 Anne 2014-12-04 15:39:18 UTC 
Chrome wasn't interested in removing this.
Comment 2 Sam Ruby 2014-12-04 15:52:36 UTC 
Note that I've marked this as dependent on issue 27518, as the whole issue may become moot based on the resolution of that bug.
Comment 3 Anne 2015-08-13 09:58:44 UTC 
So as far as I can tell Internet Explorer does support this quirk. However, they do not support it for relative input.

  file:///D|/ with no base URL becomes file:///D:/
  C:/ with file:///D:/ becomes file:///C:/
  C|/ with file:///D:/ becomes file:///D:/C%7C/

It's the last one that Chrome and Internet Explorer do differently.

It's somewhat unfortunate David Walp cannot be copied here.
Comment 4 Anne 2015-08-14 09:36:11 UTC 
Decided to leave this as-is for now. Not sure why we'd special case this in this way. Seems more like a bug than a feature.