Re: [htdig3-dev] relative urls


Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] relative urls
From: Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 08:24:24 PST


On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Valdas Andrulis wrote:

> I have checked 3.2.0b2 (Feb 21) - everything works ok,
> and current cvs code (Mar 26 or Mar 28) NOT ok.
> [SNIP]
> index.html should contain <a href="../blabla.html">blabla</a>
>
> the result http://www.site.com/../blabla.html
> the worst thing is that iis servers think this link as correct one,
> resluting in infinite loops.

Gilles pointed this out, but unfortunately I can't seem to find his
e-mail. Strangely enough, this is according to spec in the RFC. So it's
"correct."

Whether it's what we want to do is another matter, especailly if it's
causing infinite loops.

-Geoff

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