[cs631apue] Final Project URI question

[jphillip]

Hi Professor,

Is it acceptable for our web server to assume that if the URI begins 
with a / that it is an absolute path in the file system starting at the 
root of the file system?  For example if the URI being passed were 
/some/path/to/file should we check if /some/path/to/file is in the 
document root? The alternative is to assume that every uri given is 
intended to reference a resource in the document root and essentially 
prepend document root to every URI.  In this case the server would check 
if /doc/root/some/path/to/file existed and send that.  I'm just not sure 
which is correct.

Thanks,
Justin