- From: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@nysernet.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:08:23 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
In a previous episode...William C. Cheng said: -> -> It seems to be true that "/../" is not forbidden explicitely. Now, -> can anyone give me an example where http://foo/b/../bar.html and -> http://foo/bar.html should _not_ be interpreted the same way? Forget -> about the UNIX-centric business (we all know where DOS gets its "\" -> and Mac gets its ":") because all these systems basically have -> hierarchical file systems. So the real question is whether a "/" -> separator in an URL implies a level change in a hierarchy. I don't think the question is whether / is a level change, but whether .. is considered a level up. I'm pondering an http server on top of a Relational Database instead of a filesystem and I'd think the URLs would look somnething like : http://hostname:port/schema/relation/key The '/' is definitely heirarchical in some sense but .. doesn't make much sense. (The scheme here is just speculation at the momemnt.. I am still kicking the idea around in my head).. -Pat -- Patrick R. McManus NYSERNet, Inc. Information Services http://www.nysernet.org/ Systems and Network Programming * - You Kill Nostalgia, Xenophobic Fears. It's Now or Neverland. - *
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