Re: files that begin with .

--=-=-=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Felix, please stop responding to me personally. All of the headers are
set appropriately for you to follow-up to the mailing list instead of
directly to me. Thanks.

 "David" =3D=3D David D Smith <[email protected]> writes:

  David> In version 1.77 of httpd.c (almost a year old now), it was
  David> introduced that if a path in a URL contains "/.", it should
  David> be modified to be "/:". See line 1338 of httpd.c (current
  David> version from CVS, 1.84). Why was this change introduced?

  Felix> It's what publicfile does, and it prevents accidental
  Felix> publication of dot files.

  David> I=E2=80=99m sorry, but I specifically want to publish dot files. I
  David> see from the publicfile website that it =E2=80=9Crefuses to supply
  David> files that are [...]  unreadable to world.=E2=80=9D Would it be
  David> enough if we expect the user to remove world readable
  David> permissions from dot files he does not want to serve?

  Felix> The idea is then to name .procmailrc :procmailrc in your
  Felix> directory, and then fnord will export it as .procmailrc.

I am not trying to serve configuration files like .procmailrc. I am
using GNU Arch which, when served over HTTP, creates files named
.listing instead of requiring directory listing creation in the web
server and parsing of HTML in the client. And that is even irrelevant;
what is the point of renaming the file? Why not just serve up the
dotfile in the first place?

Again, please don=E2=80=99t reply to me personally this time. Thanks for
taking the time to respond.
=2D-=20
  David D. Smith
Another lefty vigorously promoting secular humanism.

--=-=-=
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBAuotCEJGOueZRHH4RAk6jAKCIHvZ64Zwm6xil6jT0A9htIDjI3ACfe0iI
yEVlbdKR4p/AqlTZqsAPXYc=
=Cq1A
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--=-=-=--