Re: [win32] Locations in Apache-Test framework

Stas Bekman <stas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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> Somebody will probably have a reason why ':' is invalid in uri path ;)

I'd bet apache is just returning a 403 for security purposes, since ':' 
is what separates the drive letter from the file path on Windows.
Superman^H^H^H^H^H^HWilliam Rowe probably knows the full answer, so you
might want to take this issue up on dev@httpd.

> So, we are stuck with the current situation no matter what would be
> the outcome of this issue. Randy suggests to s/::/-/. Any other
> suggestions? I thought it'd be nicer to s|::|/| so it better maps to
> the file, but it's probably a bad idea for possible overlaps of
> handlers within the same top-level namespace (error-prone).
> 
> Unless somebody thinks that s/::/-/ is not good enough we will go with
> this  change.

+1 to eliminating ':' from the test locations; I don't have a 
preference on '-' vs '/' though.


-- 
Joe Schaefer