Problem using os.path.normpath on Windows

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 23:54 -0400, Matt Lavin wrote:
> I was testing out bzr on Windows and I ran into a small problem with 
> fetching from an http url.  If I execute `bzr branch 
> http://bazaar-ng.org/bzr/bzr.dev` then I get a failure in _make_request 
> telling me that I received a HTTP 404 failure. 
> 
> I did a little debugging and found that the line 'path = 
> os.path.normpath(path)' in bzrutil/urlgrabber/grabber.py ( is _parse_url 
> ) is the problem.  That method does not work like the method expects 
> when running on windows since the forward slashes get translated to 
> backwards slashes. 

I think we've stopped using urlgrabber.. but for reference anyway: the
os.* calls are generally unsafe on urls of any sort. For instance:
http://host/../otherhost != http://otherhost.

Rob

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