Apply fix for bz64167 from trunk.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1875942 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/developer/request.xml b/docs/manual/developer/request.xml
index 8c329b4b2613c9f56dbe9128f3849d04991c688b..8f2c73c07fc273e306568920c549c8b77ffb6349 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>