Re: [9fans] another webfs question

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

> Yeah, there aren't any. That's the point of URL encoding; NULL bytes
> are as acceptable as any other, and your client should be able to
> handle them -- so I think that webfs check is just bogus. It should
> just encode it as a \0 and pass it through.

(you do mean %00 should result in a byte with value 0, not
two bytes (in c notation) '\\' and '0', right?)

assuming that every application that uses webfs is prepared
to handle a null byte in the middle of a string.  what webfs does
— complaining loudly — is much preferrable to programs misbehaving
silently.  since it's quite likely that plan 9 applications are not
going to properly deal with a null in a string, it's probablly
a good implementation strategy unless you're willing to test
all the programs that use webfs to make sure that this case
is properly handled.

- erik