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Re: wildcard authz docs question

From: Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan2_at_apache.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:22:33 +0200

On 15.03.2017 10:55, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >From the 1.10 draft release notes:
>
>> All wildcards apply to full path segments only, i.e. * never matches
>> /, except for the case where /**/ matches zero or more path segments.
>> For example, /*/**/* will match any path which contains at least
>> 2 segments and is equivalent to /**/*/* as well as /*/*/**.
> Are «/*/**/*» «/**/*/*» «/*/*/**» really equivalent? I would have
> expected the first two to match any node except / and /'s immediate
> children, but I wouldn't expect the third form to match /trunk/iota
> where iota is a file, since the pattern has a trailing slash after the
> non-optional second component.
How do you know that /trunk/iota is a file?

The problem is that the authz callback does not provide
enough context information to make that distinction.
We might extend the interface in the future - allowing
to restrict rules to exclusively match files or dirs only.

But making that backward compatible adds quite a bit
of complexity that I don't want to pile on there in 1.10.

-- Stefan^2.
Received on 2017-04-17 22:22:40 CEST

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