Fixed #1291 -- Fixed a potential infinite loop for some URL constructions in

the development server. Thanks, Graham Carlyle.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@6731 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

AUTHORS

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
     Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
     Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.cardenes@gmail.com>
+    Graham Carlyle <graham.carlyle@maplecroft.net>
     Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
     C8E
     cedric@terramater.net

django/views/static.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
 
     # Clean up given path to only allow serving files below document_root.
     path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
+    path = path.lstrip('/')
     newpath = ''
     for part in path.split('/'):
         if not part:

tests/regressiontests/views/tests/static.py

@@ -13,3 +13,11 @@ class StaticTests(TestCase):
             response = self.client.get('/views/site_media/%s' % filename)
             file = open(path.join(media_dir, filename))
             self.assertEquals(file.read(), response.content)
+
+    def test_copes_with_empty_path_component(self):
+        file_name = 'file.txt'
+        response = self.client.get('/views/site_media//%s' % file_name)
+        file = open(path.join(media_dir, file_name))
+        self.assertEquals(file.read(), response.content)
+        
+