On 19-Nov-05 09:59:28 Francois PIETTE wrote:

>>>The question is: Should the HTTP client component implement this relative
>>>path removal algorithm ?
>>
>> If it is formally valid yes. But it could be tricky to do because
>> sometimes the relative path could be a little "strange" :-)

>Can you give and example of "strange" relative path ?

  ../../adir/subdir/../anothersubdir/./etc/../../where_I_am

This can happen when the path is "composed". I don't know if it is
happen in the web, I followed a similar discussion in the development
of an OS so I "traslated" it for the web.
BTW is the "." allowed?


Bye, Maurizio.

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