Yep. I found it :-D http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/io/apidocs/org/apache/commons/io/ FilenameUtils.html#normalize(java.lang.String)
This method returns null if there are too many ".."s, which strikes me as rather bizarre.
Can you explain more about that?
/../ --> null
That's what Ugo called 'bizarre'.
Joerg