> if we setup aliases on the webserver so that http://www.foo.bar/program was
> an alias for /cgi-bin/executable/specialprogram, then we have a situation
> where
> http://www.foo.bar/program/../some_other_directory
> is not equal to
> http://www.foo.bar/some_other_directory
It would be very poor design to have "/../some_other_directory" as an argument
to a CGI. The worst that can happen is that the crawler gets a 404 on the
request, and if the author passes that sort of argument, he--quite
frankly--deserves that 404.
-Ed-
mred@neosoft.com
http://www.neosoft.com/~mred/