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From: Sam Robb <srobb@wisewire.com>
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Subject: RE: W32 - leading periods?
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:32:18 -0400 
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Huh.

I think it's just a typo - the link text in the article isn't
the same as the HREF; there should be an extra '\' between the
final period and "productinfo":

<a href="http://website.oreilly.com/wspro2/../wspro2/.\productinfo">
http://website.oreilly.com/wspro2/../wspro2/.productinfo
</a>



- Samrobb
- srobb@wisewire.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ben Hyde [SMTP:bhyde@pobox.com]
> Sent:	Monday, July 06, 1998 3:33 PM
> To:	new-httpd@apache.org
> Subject:	W32 - leading periods?
> 
> 
> In another forum [1] the "lead develper of O'Reilly's WebSite" gives
> this example
> 
>  http://website.oreilly.com/wspro2/../wspro2/.productinfo
> 
> which WebSite revises into:
> 
>  http://website.oreilly.com/wspro2/productinfo/
> 
> My question?  Why does it strip the leading period
> off ".productinfo"  Is there some reason to be 
> afraid of files without names, but only extensions?
> 
>  - ben hyde
> 
> [1]
> http://betty.userland.com/stories/daveWiner/98/07/bobDennyChecksIn.htm
> l