[pmwiki-users] Re: Uploads revisited
Joachim Durchholz
jo at durchholz.org
Fri Mar 25 14:37:39 CST 2005
Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-03-25 05:23 PM +0100, Joachim Durchholz is rumored to have said:
>
>> If the server is running on some Unixoid OS (Linux/Solaris/whatever),
>> this is just fine. Unix *defines* multiple slashes to be equivalent to
>> a single one.
>>
>> On a Windows machine, the file will not be found (IIRC).
>
> On my Windoze server running Apache 2, multiple slashes are collapsed
> into one. I even tried 4 in a row. You can try it here:
>
> http://neil.eton.ca/wiki/index.php////Main/HomePage
Oh, right. Apache does a great deal of pathname mungification (so that
it can represent document paths with forward slashes instead of the
backward slashes that Windows uses internally).
I don't know what Apache 1.3 does in this situation. Might well do the
same thing.
Regards,
Jo
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