----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Problem #2, I think, deserves an exception, rather than a silent 
> adjustment.  If you sent "http://a/../g"; to either Tomcat or Apache, I 

I think so, except for IIS.  ;)

> believe both will actually ignore the request and log it as an attempted 
> hack, so we definitely shouldn't take that option.  The result of 
> "http://a/g"; is misleading, and will lead to unintended consequences 
> that are harder to identify and figure out than if you threw an 
> exception in the first place.  Imagine, for example, that your client 

Reasonable...  ;)

> application follows a link in an HTML that generated this URL, and the 
> file "g" actually exists on the server.  Everything will appear to be 
> operating correctly, but it is not.

If an exception is thrown, then probably some might happen to try to
find a higher virtual server?   It's very unusual though... ^^;

Sung-Gu

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