Re: path canonicalization problem (issue #559)

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Great, thanks Garrett! I've left issue #559 assigned to Branko;
> recommend discussing with him whatever solution you come up with, it
> seems that he's thought about this a lot and will have useful things
> to say, no matter who writes the code.
>
> Note that issue #559 is not about duplicate slashes within the string,
> but about stripping trailing slash(es) from the end of the string.
> Maybe we'll want to change one behavior and not the other, or maybe
> both, but in any case, the specific badness referred to in the issue
> results from stripping trailing slashes.

Canonicalization also means to remove double slashes and components that
have "." in them. It also means to handle ".." properly, by removing both
the ".." and the preceding component.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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