On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> I disagree with this. I think htdig is making a safe assumption in
> treating the query strings as significant.
My argument would be that if a file has a query, it should really be
treated through the HTTP server (for server parsing, etc.) *or* perhaps as
an option, the query should be ignored for local filesystem indexing. I
guess my point can be summed up that when looking for a file on the
system, it should not be a file "index.html?1723" but "index.html" if the
query is to be ignored.
> to the handling of local_urls, though, because there are cases where
> users wanted query string stripping even for HTTP-based digging. I think
Yes, removing query strings is a separate matter, but as I said above, the
file code should never try to lookup for "index.html?1723." That's just
not how the URL is to be parsed by the RFCs. If you have a legitimate
question-mark in a filename, it has to be an encoded one.
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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