RE: On the proliferation of well-known URLs; draft-nottingham-site-meta-01

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Williams [mailto:Nicolas.Williams <at> sun.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:07 AM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: Brad Fitzpatrick; Sam Johnston; apps-discuss <at> ietf.org
> Subject: Re: On the proliferation of well-known URLs; draft-nottingham-
> site-meta-01
> 
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:18:17AM -0700, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> > This makes sense but I don’t have strong views here. My only concern
> > is to get this adopted for host-meta so whatever proves to be the
> path
> > of least resistance works for me.
> >
> > On the business of using odd characters, isn’t choosing any ‘*/’
> > prefix going to solve your concerns? No site I know allows using ‘/’
> > for usernames, short URLs, etc. I’m afraid making the prefix “ugly”
> > will cause people not to use it and will make documenting it
> confusing
> > to people who will not be expecting something like that.
> 
> But sites do often allow users to have files, so "*/" falls down.

That goes beyond what we can reasonable protect against. If you are going to let users do whatever they want
on your root namespace, you are going to have other problems. Sites allowing users to have files under
custom sub-directories will need more protections than just some *potentially* illegal characters.

EHL
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