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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32806 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-12-24 02:56 ------- Here is some feedback I got from the specification lead maintainer for the Servlet API. He points out that there is nothing preventing an implementation from mapping URLs to paths in a case-insensitive manner. ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== Hi Gili On Dec 22, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Gili wrote: > Greg, > > You talk as if File.getCanonicalPath() did not exist :) So my > answer is twofold: > > 1) Password strings differ from file paths. Yes, the latter can be > represented in the form of a String, but we really know it represents a > file path. And while we're on the topic, I suspect the implementation > stores such entities as "File" objects internally, not Strings. > Yes passwords are a different animal from file paths. An implementation of the servlet API will be whether file paths are canonical or not. Quoting the servlet spec SRV2.4 Glossary page 328 "In HTTP-based URLs, the º/ºcharacter is reserved to separate a hierarchical path structure in the URL-path portion of the URL. The server is responsible for determining the meaning of the hierarchical structure. There is no correspondence between a URL-path and a given file system path." The only two APIs that are provided for accessing a resource directly from the servlet spec's perspective are: ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(String/URL) and ServletContext.getResourceAsStream(String) This is as close to file paths that the servlet API really get. It is generally not a good practice to access the file system directly from a web application. With the J2EE Reference implementation you need to change the security settings of the web container to allow this. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
