[Catalyst] Re: Chained, slashes, and escaping

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us> [2007-03-06 06:20]:
> Apparently back in the early days of the web, a URL like that
> caused problems with poorly written CGI scripts that blindly
> opened the PATH_INFO variable. Instead of fixing the scripts,
> the apache / NCSA HTTPD authors decided to break the URL spec
> for the rest of forever.
> 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/199612.mbox/%3C9612031142.aa27069@paris.ics.uci.edu%3E
> 
> 11 years later, the web is still broken (for backwards
> compatibility, of course).

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>