Re: djbwares version 4

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

Now I get it. When marking with the mouse, I did not mark the ending /

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:18:14PM +0000, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:
> 
> > In celebration of the forthcoming leap second, djbwares is now at
> > version 4.
> > 
> > * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/
> > * http://jdebp.info./Softwares/djbwares/
> > 
> Jean Louis:
> 
> > http://jdebp.info./Softwares/djbwares
> > 
> > is not working: "access denied" and I instinctively tried that one
> > first, as to avoid .eu (even it makes no sense).
> > 
> 
> You should have just tried the URL that I gave to you, without your changing
> it to something different.
> 
> Ironically, Bernstein publicfile is part of the package at hand, and this is
> the documented behaviour of publicfile, in its original Bernstein manual:
> 
> > A request for http://v/f refers to the file named ./v/f inside the root
> directory hierarchy, if f does not end with a slash.
> 
> > httpd will refuse to read a file if the file [...] is anything other than
> a regular file: a directory, socket, device, etc.
> 
> publicfile isn't going to let you read the WWW server's directories directly
> with URL tricks.  You attempt that in vain.  (-:  For *not* trying to trick
> the WWW server, and simply reading the blurb and the download instructions,
> just use the actual URL that I gave.
>