Sander Striker wrote:
>>From: Shawn [mailto:discostu26@shaw.ca]
>>Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:53 AM
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>>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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>Aha! So this is really an IIS bug, not a VS.NET bug. Can't you use
>Apache? ;)
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Err, browsing into test.test and .svn works for me on my (Windows XP
Professional SP1 + all critical updates) installation :-)
Does not fix the problem.
-David Waite
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Received on Thu Sep 25 16:40:43 2003