On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 rmitchell_at_eds.com wrote:

> OK, first off, this may not be a curl issue, and I'm happy if someone can
> give me chapter and verse telling me why not.

Unfortunately, I very much think this is a curl issue.

> What I'm seeing is this: I go to fetch a page from server X, get a bunch
> of redirects that end up at server Y, which presents a login page. I post
> back the relevant fields to server Y, which then sends more redirects, the
> last of which looks like this:
>
> Location: ./welcome.jsp
>
> along with a cookie or two. curl inserts the path to the file and tries to
> fetch:
>
> http://serverY/dirA/dirB/./welcome.jsp
>
> which gets me "500: Server Error [00-0002]".

Right. Curl has no knowledge about the "./" concept. This is certainly a flaw
we need to fix.

I'll dig into this as soon as possible. Hopefully I can produce a patch for
this until tomorrow or so.

> I might be able to beat up the owners of serverY and get them to take out
> the ./, because that's essentially a no-op, but I suspect it may be 3rd
> party code and therefore a lot harder to get corrected.

That might be a work-around for now, yes, but I think curl should be able to
deal with this simple and fairly common case.

lib/transfer.c:1365 could be a place to start looking at.

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