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Re: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:02:01PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> >
> >> >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
I just tested again, The request made by IE 5.5 is
===
GET http://xfree86.cygwin.com/mirrors.html HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, imag
e/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*
Referer: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
Accept-Language: en-au
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Host: xfree86.cygwin.com
===
The behaviour you are getting is just plain non-portable. Can you turn that mapping back off? (I'd rather consistently get errors
than have to enquire as to browser version etc.
BTW: what browser are you using?
Rob