[PATCH 00/13] nfsd patches

Talpey, Thomas Thomas.Talpey at netapp.com
Mon Sep 11 13:24:45 EDT 2006


At 01:01 PM 9/11/2006, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>The hostlist escaping is overkill.  (Anyone attempting to use such
>characters in a hostname deserves whatever they get.)  But maybe it's
>safer that way.

I thought the escaping was needed on the pathname components,
which can have all sorts of characters. Hostnames can only have
ascii alphanumerics and "-" by DNS standard however. Technically,
anyhow.

Tom.



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