Re: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:23:20PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> I've redirected /.. and /../ to the cygwin directory.  It seems to work.
>
>I just tested again, The request made by IE 5.5 is
>===
>GET http://xfree86.cygwin.com/mirrors.html HTTP/1.1
>Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, imag
>e/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*
>Referer: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
>Accept-Language: en-au
>Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
>Host: xfree86.cygwin.com
>
>===
>The behaviour you are getting is just plain non-portable.  Can you turn
>that mapping back off?  (I'd rather consistently get errors than have
>to enquire as to browser version etc.  BTW: what browser are you using?

The behavior is only active for xfree86.cygwin.com, so I don't see any
urgent need to reconfigure anything.  I don't think anyone will be
flocking to xfree86.cygwin.com in the next couple of days.

Also, AFAICT, there is no longer a reference to ..  on the web page is
there?

I'm using mozilla.  I notice that it fails with netscape, though.

cgf