Adds additional clarification, as requested in bz64167

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1875941 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/developer/request.xml b/docs/manual/developer/request.xml
index 3d1a2e3443988869642b5263ef072c746a892c75..1185b94c6ea854c470ccd4ebab5d0a0463a15e92 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/developer/request.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/developer/request.xml
@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@
     <section id="strip"><title>Strips Parent and This Elements from the
     URI</title>
       <p>All <code>/../</code> and <code>/./</code> elements are
-      removed by <code>ap_getparents()</code>. This helps to ensure
+      removed by <code>ap_getparents()</code>, as well as any trailing 
+      <code>/.</code> or <code>/..</code> element. This helps to ensure
       the path is (nearly) absolute before the request processing
-      continues.</p>
+      continues. (See RFC 1808 section 4 for further discussion.)</p>
 
       <p>This step cannot be bypassed.</p>
     </section>