* Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-06 06:20]: > Apparently back in the early days of the web, a URL like that > caused problems with poorly written CGI scripts that blindly > opened the PATH_INFO variable. Instead of fixing the scripts, > the apache / NCSA HTTPD authors decided to break the URL spec > for the rest of forever. > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/199612.mbox/[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > > 11 years later, the web is still broken (for backwards > compatibility, of course).
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
