Note about failing Windows integration tests and idp.home

[Tom Zeller]

On Jan 16, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>> So, while we throw an error if idp.home ends with a /, I think we might
> should
>> bail out also if idp.home contains \.
> 
> I'm usually pretty much against that sort of stuff.  Just because 40 years
> ago someone chose a new directory separator why do we have to pretend that
> every operating system uses it?  But you can only push so far and as you
> point out the restriction is really imposed by Spring  using the wrong
> type...  So I'd say "let's do that and fix it in the documentation".
> 
> Tom, I barely dare say this, but for completely you need to know that some
> Windows paths can start with a double slash ("\\localhost\c$\dir\file" or
> "\\.\GlobalRoot\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy7\path\to\readonly\file").  I
> would state forcefully that we just do not want to go there,

Aren't those called UNC paths ? Just chatting. Showing a bit of my NT 3.5.1 training hehe.

Yes, and the \ could be escaped.

I wasted tooo much time. But, in the end, IdP.webflows has a /, that's the platform specific part.