Re: [SQU] paths containing consecutive slashes

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:29:48 +0100

The proxy are is allowed to assume they are the same file.

Most of the time they are the same, but there might be servers who react
differently.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Cameron wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a "bug" or not (it's probably more like an
> absent feature), but...Squid caches the following two URLs even though
> they are actually the same file:
> 
>   http://foo.com/gfx/a_big_image.png
>   http://foo.com/gfx//a_big_image.png
> 
> I have no clue about the technicalities of this, but it seems like Squid
> could consolidate multiple slashes and cache only one copy of the image.
> But as I said, I don't know if this is a safe assumption to make or if
> it's a complete no-no in decoding URIs.
> --
> cameron
> [ If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? ]
> 
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