The idea behind 'strippath' implementation?

[Russ Allbery]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

> Is there a good reason to change it? I'm sure there are old clients out
> there which still put a name there. I don't feel strongly about it,
> clearly...

I'm pretty sure the problem report was from someone worried about local
users playing tricks with path preloading, and while servers probably
should ignore the last path element, I'm equally sure that many don't.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>