storage branch - remaining issues?

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:52 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > I thought '..' was not allowed in urls.
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> > I don't really care. I feel like the Transport layer is a nice
> > centralized location where paths go through. Which means they can
> > interpret the path, and everyone else can consider it a voodoo string.
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> That is really unhelpful for anyone who wants to manipulate the path.
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> > We could make Branch.open* be the conversion point, but if we are that
> > deep, it is only 1 more step to get to Transport, since the first thing
> > open() does is get_transport()
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> I've already said I'd be willing to do the convertion in get_transport.
>  I am concerned that this may involve unicode decoding, and if so, we
> don't have enough data to know what encoding the string is in.

safe_unicode is the key here - its what it was written for.

Rob

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