The following reply was made to PR general/805; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodent of Unusual Size)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: general/805: multiple slashes before a ~user path are incorrectly
handled
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 10:17:28 -0400
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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 07:04:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nick Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I verified that it is only when "name" is an actual user ID and
traced the problem to mod_userdir. The error is where translate_userdir
checks to see if there is any work to be done. Currently we have:
char *name = r->uri;
const char *w, *dname, *redirect;
char *x = NULL;
if (userdirs == NULL || !strcasecmp(userdirs, "disabled") ||
(name[0] != '/') || (name[1] != '~')) {
return DECLINED;
}
which explicitly assumes that the first character is a '/' and the
second is a '~'. The simplest way to fix this would be to add
no2slash (name);
before the if to get rid of the multiple slashes. I built a copy of
httpd with this change and it seemed to handle the //~user references
correctly.
-- Nick Allen
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