On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 some message from Glenn McCorkle appeared before me saying,
>>> This is impossible........ http://www.streetteam.net/../../../pm5k.html
>>> Or am I wrong? Can you go three directories BEFORE root???
>> No, but Arachne could change it as you have done yourself.
>>> This works fine....... http://www.streetteam.net/pm5k.html
>
> But then Arachne would become even more "bloated".
>Michael would need to run every URL through a "filter" to edit-out all ../
>references which would result in taking the user "below root".
>For example:
>http://sitename.com/pages/testpage.htm could contain these 2 links.
>"../images/1.gif" (correct)
>"../../images/2.gif" (incorrect)
>If Arachne removed all ../ references, neither image could be accessed.
This is a issue that the webserver handles... going below root gives
webserver errors... It's all up to the webdesigner. Arachne shouldn't be
fixing webdesigners errrors..
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Met vriendelijke groet,
Cliff Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
