[Python-Dev] Path object design

[Nick Coghlan]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Having said this, Andrew *did* demonstrate quite convincingly that the 
> current urljoin has some fairly egregious directory traversal glitches. 
> Is it really right to punt obvious gotchas like
> 
>  >>>urlparse.urljoin("http://blah.com/a/b/c", "../../../../")
> 
> 'http://blah.com/../../'
> 
>  >>>
> 
> to the server?

See Paul Jimenez's thread about replacing urlparse with something better. The 
current module has some serious issues :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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