Questions on INPUT behavior

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:16 PM Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
> > Of course, I could write my server to be able to understand and parse these
> > path components. But it throws the whole "path as a hierarchy" paradigm out
> > the window. I can only assume that this issue is why query param key-value
> > pairs were invented in the first place.
>
>   The path is an abstract reference to a resource.  It's only hierarchial in
> your mind.  There is no spoon.
>
>   -spc

I used to think that way too, but then my gemini proxy got pwned by your torture
test :-) Then I discovered that I had to deal with splitting path components,
concatenating relative paths, resolving dot-segments, and a bunch of
other hierarchical
junk that I didn't consider before and am probably still getting wrong now.

All hail the spoon

- mozz

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