[pmwiki-users] Re: Uploads revisited

[Joachim Durchholz]

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