#19046: staticfiles not finding the files on Windows
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Reporter: nelutzu_13@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: closed
Component: contrib.staticfiles | Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal | Resolution: needsinfo
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by jezdez):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => needsinfo
Comment:
posixpath is the module that is used on POSIX systems when import os.path.
It uses the hardcoded forward slash and a couple of other things different
to the ntpath module that does the same for Windows systems. In other
words os.path just a facade for the platform specific tools. The different
modules are documented on http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html
The lstrip('/') happens there since the path passed to the serve view may
be formatted as `http://localhost:8000/static///someother/file.ext` making
path having a value of `//someother/file.ext`. The posix.normpath happens
there to remove redundancies in the path (e.g. `path/to/../some//file.ext`
is converted to `path/some/file.ext`). The finder api expects that kind of
cleaned up name to make sure it does the right thing later on.
As I'm not able to reproduce the issue with the current code, I'm closing
as needsinfo. A testcase that demostrates the issue would be appreciated,
for example.
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