Re: Interesting problem with ":" in mod_dav_svn XML output

Michael Sinz <Michael.Sinz@sinz.org> writes:

> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
>> I think this is a bug. If Subversion does not allow slashes in
>> file names, it should say so in the error message, rather than
>> treat %2F as a directory separator.
>
> That is the problem - how would such a file ever be handled at the FS layer or
> the URI layer - the escaping/unescaping happens before the path is taken apart.

Well, if the interface of the URI unescaping code makes it
impossible to preserve the distinction between "%2F" and "/",
then I think the unescaper should allow just one of them,
presumably "/", and return an error if it sees the other.

The same applies to "%00" versus end of string.