Re: punctuation and path names

Werner Baumann skrev:
>
> There is still a problem with the approach taken by davfs2.
>
> Within HTTP, "on the wire", URLs must be %-encoded as mentioned by 
> Tim. A "/" within a path-segment will be represented by "%2f". But 
> when used as path-separator, "/" must *not* be encoded. At some point 
> a  client will have to decode the URL-path-component. davfs2 stores 
> the URL-path in its decoded form and encodes it again when used in a 
> request.
>
> But in this case, it can not distinguish between "/" as path-separator 
> and "/" within a path-segment. So you better store the URL-path in its 
> %-encoded form as received from the server. You still have to check 
> for trailing-slash-errors (I had a report about a server that does not 
> accept URLs when send exactly as received from the server, because it 
> mixed up the trailing-slash-rules).
>
> Very strange:
> I just tested with Windows2000 and WindowsServer2003. Both of them did 
> *not* allow to create file-names containing a "/"-character. Did 
> Microsoft change this good policy to the bad in XP?
>
> "/" is the path-separator in HTTP. As today everything can end up in 
> the  World Wide Web, "/"-characters in file-names should always be 
> rejected.
>
> Werner
>
You cannot create filenames in XP with / in them. WIN32 handles / and \ 
equally in many functions. For example the splitpath family of functions 
treat / and \ equally and I do think that CreateFile does as well (not 
sure though).

Just tested to create a file on XP as "test/test2" and it gave me an 
error that / was not allowed in filenames.

/Henrik Holst