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Re: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/


On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:02:01PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>> >To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>> >Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 5:01 PM
>> >Subject: Re: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
>> >
>> >
>> >I know.  But url's like <a href="../mirrors.htm">mirrors page<a> are
>> >broken if a user goes to xfree86.cygwin.com.  This needs to be fixed
>> >one of three ways.
>>
>> I can always tweak the configuration to allow ../mirrors.html (or maybe even
>> just ..) to mean the right thing when referencing xfree86.cygwin.com.
>
>I'd be interested to see that.  (Most browsers interpret ../mirrors.htm
>when the current 'directory' is / to be /mirrors.htm, not
>/../mirrors.htm
>
>so they won't send
>HTTP/1.1 GET /../mirrors.htm
>Host: xfree86.cygwin.com
>
>which I do believe you could make a workaround on.)

I've redirected /.. and /../ to the cygwin directory.  It seems to work.

cgf


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