summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/docs/manual/developer
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>2020-03-31 16:39:56 +0200
committerRich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>2020-03-31 16:39:56 +0200
commit0121b9eb7e634f50ab23585e2983c22077fdf6a0 (patch)
treed36aa0842031de8a57eb0e599330c5c58ecbcb48 /docs/manual/developer
parentFor future debugging ease, output the Travis tag & branch. [skip ci] (diff)
downloadapache2-0121b9eb7e634f50ab23585e2983c22077fdf6a0.tar.xz
apache2-0121b9eb7e634f50ab23585e2983c22077fdf6a0.zip
Adds additional clarification, as requested in bz64167
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1875941 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual/developer')
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/developer/request.xml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/developer/request.xml b/docs/manual/developer/request.xml
index 3d1a2e3443..1185b94c6e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/developer/request.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/developer/request.xml
@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@
<section id="strip"><title>Strips Parent and This Elements from the
URI</title>
<p>All <code>/../</code> and <code>/./</code> elements are
- removed by <code>ap_getparents()</code>. This helps to ensure
+ removed by <code>ap_getparents()</code>, as well as any trailing
+ <code>/.</code> or <code>/..</code> element. This helps to ensure
the path is (nearly) absolute before the request processing
- continues.</p>
+ continues. (See RFC 1808 section 4 for further discussion.)</p>
<p>This step cannot be bypassed.</p>
</section>