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Re: [TSVN] Politics of SVN[Scanned]

From: SteveKing <steveking_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 2004-08-14 10:19:54 CEST

Demyanovich, Craig - Apogent wrote:

> On the contrary, I find it totally easy to blame M$ for this, since many
> other apps have created "dot" folders/files in my home directory on Windows
> without disturbing anything else. Why is it that FrontPage extensions don't
> work well with this naming convention when so many other things do?

The reason for this was a security hole in IIS, where it was possible to
pass an URL with many dots in it to provoke a buffer overflow. M$ then
"fixed" this by just rejecting any URL to files with a starting dot.

Stefan

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