- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 22:44:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > So I had a couple of additional smaller inputs to this. > > So first off, I'm not sure if the correct place to require > directory-wide policies to be place is "/foo/" or "/foo". Do both of > these from a uri point of view represent the directory resource? I know > servers redirect to "/foo/", but I think that's just to get relative > URIs in the default resource for the directory to be resolved correctly. > > The question here is, which uri refers to the directory, is it "/foo" or > "/foo/". It doesn't actually matter to the algorithm, by the way. Either could be used to set the policy. > It seems like the current spec uses "/foo/" just to be able to do > substring matches. This seems like the wrong reason to make this > decision. Unless I'm misunderstanding the spec, that's not the case. It certainly wasn't the case in my proposal... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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