Graham Dumpleton (JIRA) wrote:
The actual function in Apache which can be used to normalise paths and which
outputs the POSIX style path required is apr_filepath_merge(). The question is,
should this be exposed in some way so that it is useable from mod_python, or
for the req.filename case, should assignment to req.filename automatically
trigger normalisation of the path to ensure that it simply just works all the
time and isn't dependent on a user of mod_python realising they need to
normalise it first in the POSIX style to ensure their code is portable across
platforms.
There are really 2 independent questions here:
1. Should assignment to req.filename automatically trigger path
normalisation?
+1
2. Is there a use case for exposing apr_filepath_merge()? I can't think
of one, but is this function useful to Windows folks?
+0
Jim
