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Re: Proposal for ... POST when dealing with large numbers of URIs

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:51:17 +0100
To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
Cc: "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.t59cnrru64w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:30:46 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> Second, I don't think we should automatically be "fixing up" the  
> directory uri by prepending and/or appending slashes if they aren't  
> there. In all other cases we opt to fail if the required syntax is  
> wrong, which seems like the safer thing when it comes to security. I  
> think we should apply the same rule here.

The current specification does not prepend a slash. It requires the URI to  
match the abs_path production from RFC 2616. It does append a slash for  
comparison purposes. I explained this in the other e-mail.


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Anne van Kesteren
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