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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com> on 1995/07/26 03:49:55 UTC
Re: Stuff for 0.8.3...
WhoooHoo 30+ messages today! Like the old days! :-)
> I can't imagine anyone relying on this behaviour, namely that
> http://server.com/dir/path.html
> and
> http://server.com/dir//path.html
>
> give the same result, whereas I have seen at least one complaint in the
> newsgroup that allowing the latter form means that relative links cannot be
> guaranteed to work.
>
> Apache should fault the latter, and I think this is best done in
> directory_walk().
>
> David.
I agree with David's take on this. I think it is wrong to
allow this abuse of the filesystem. This is just plain wrong.