> Well, these browsers "helpfully" fix the URL to change backslashes into regular forward slashes, I suppose because people sometimes type in URLs and get their

> Well, these browsers "helpfully" fix the URL to change backslashes into regular forward slashes, I suppose because people sometimes type in URLs and get their forward and back slashes confused. More likely because Windows has historically used \ rather than the / that's standard in Unixish systems. Windows people are used to typing \, so it's indeed somewhat helpful for the browser to accept either (e.g., in file:// URLs).