Re: ".svn" directory name no good (in fact, it is worse than I thought)

hehehe...

  if (strchr(pUrl, '.'))
    return 404;

Can I get paid lots of money now?

Sly

> Just to shed a little more light on the issue. M$ in their "security"
> push has "fixed" IIS so that it cannot accept directory names with "."
> in them. Just try it. Create a folder in your wwwroot called "test.test"
> (put a file in there) and try and get to it. You'll get a page not found
> error. They got burned bad by all the "..\..\winnt\system32\cmd.exe"
> type hacks. VS.NET uses http to grab the files for web projects so that
> remote and local web projects all work in the same way. What I'm saying
> here is that M$ spent a lot of time and $$$ explicitly not allowing
> folders with "." in them so expecting them to do anything about it is
> completely out of the question.

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Received on Thu Sep 25 09:32:25 2003