Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-08 Thread Frank McCown
Frank McCown wrote: According to rfc1808 sec 5.2, the ".." should be left at the beginning of the URL path. But according to the new rfc3986 sec 5.4.2, the ".." should be removed from the beginning of the URL path. With this new behavior implemented, wget would never make a URL request with

Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-06 Thread Frank McCown
According to rfc1808 sec 5.2, the ".." should be left at the beginning of the URL path. But according to the new rfc3986 sec 5.4.2, the ".." should be removed from the beginning of the URL path. With this new behavior implemented, wget would never make a URL request with ".." in it except in

Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-02 Thread Frank McCown
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Frank McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Earlier today I sent an email explaining that wget already handles ".." in the middle of a URL correctly, it just doesn't handle ".." immediately after the domain name correctly. But it does, at least according to rfc1808, which

Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-01 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Frank McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Earlier today I sent an email explaining that wget already handles > ".." in the middle of a URL correctly, it just doesn't handle ".." > immediately after the domain name correctly. But it does, at least according to rfc1808, which mandates leading ".."

Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-01 Thread Frank McCown
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Frank McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But IIS does not handle ".." the same way. IIS will simply ignore ".." and produce the page. So the following two URLs are referencing the same HTML page: http://www.merseyfire.gov.uk/pages/fire_auth/councillors.htm and http://

Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-01 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Frank McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But IIS does not handle ".." the same way. IIS will simply ignore > ".." and produce the page. So the following two URLs are referencing > the same HTML page: > > http://www.merseyfire.gov.uk/pages/fire_auth/councillors.htm > > and > > http://www.mersey

Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-01 Thread Frank McCown
Mauro Tortonesi wrote: Frank McCown wrote: It would be nice if wget could handle these mal-adjusted URLs properly since they do appear from time to time. (In the case of www.merseyfire.gov.uk, they appear very frequently unfortunately.) yes, it would be nice. but how are you exactly propos

Re: Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-01 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
Frank McCown wrote: It would be nice if wget could handle these mal-adjusted URLs properly since they do appear from time to time. (In the case of www.merseyfire.gov.uk, they appear very frequently unfortunately.) yes, it would be nice. but how are you exactly proposing to achieve this resu

Handling of ".." in url

2005-12-01 Thread Frank McCown
Apache does not allow a URL to attempt access above the public_html location. Example: http://www.gnu.org/../software/wget/manual/wget.html will cause a "Bad Request" page to be generated because the ".." in the URL. But IIS does not handle ".." the same way. IIS will simply ignore ".." a