LYNX-DEV spurious ../ inserted in URL

[Philip Webb]

this came up last year, but i've no idea how to find it in the archive.

last saturday i tried to download a hilarious story in Washington Post
about how RMN mused over vandalising his own party HQ.
i carelessly got the wrong page,
so next day i went into their search form, asked for  Nixon
& got a list of stories + links.

unfortunately the link i needed had  ../  inserted
after  www.washingtonpost.com/  resulting in a 404 Not Found.
however,  g  with the same URL edited to omit the  ../  got to the story.

i alerted their man, who sent me a long & polite e-reply,
but appeared quite unconscious of the error in his software.

MY POINT here is that i'm sure i saw something about this last year,
as a standard bug, possibly a Netscapism or something.
do we (collectively) know of this as a FFB (frequently found bug)
with a well-known cause which webmasters can be informed of easily?

anyone with a better memory than mine for list threads?

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