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 ".."
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.merseyfire.gov.uk/../pages/fire_auth/councillors.htm
The reason I bring this up is that if I use wget to access the URL with
"..", it will translate ".." into "%2E%2E" like this:
wget -r http://www.merseyfire.gov.uk/../pages/fire_auth/councillors.htm
saved to
www.merseyfire.gov.uk/%2E%2E/pages/fire_auth/councillors.htm
although it should be saved to
www.merseyfire.gov.uk/pages/fire_auth/councillors.htm
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.)
Thanks,
Frank
