From: Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@...>
Date: 2006-06-05T22:19:35+09:00
Subject: Re: New webserver

Hi Stuart,

   not sure if it is a good idea to handle security on this level, but 
you can try gsub instead of sub to replace all occurrences.

Cheers,
Mariano

Stuart Brand wrote:
> Im designing a webserver as my first project on Ruby
> 
> I need help with this line
> 
> fileLine.sub(/\.\.\//, '')
> 
> this is to remove any "../" that occur due to users trying to brake in, 
> or by accident ;)
> 
> However, this only removes the first instance of the ../ how do I remove 
> every instance?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Stuart
>