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Synopsis: Sending loads of /'s in a request can eventually bring system to 
crawl.

Comment-Added-By: coar
Comment-Added-When: Tue Dec 30 09:01:25 PST 1997
Comment-Added:
We are looking into this to verify the exact issue and
formulate the correct solution.  Your proposed solution
is not correct; under no circumstances should a Web server
make such a blanket assumption about what is intended.  If
the request complies with the relevant RFCs and is
syntactically correct, it must be permitted to pass.  What
about a server-side script that uses multiple slashes as
delimiters in either the PATH_INFO or the URL argument,
such as <http://host/script/path-info/a////b?&c=1&d=/////>?
That's a perfectly valid URL and no server has any business
complaining about it.  As you can see, determining the
right way to deal with this is not as simple as it may
appear.
Release-Changed-From-To: 1.2.x (1.2.4 has hole)-1.2.x
Release-Changed-By: coar
Release-Changed-When: Tue Dec 30 09:01:25 PST 1997

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