I can see rejecting .. to disallow access above the tree, but rejecting / doesn't make any sense to me. So we have to just plop everything down in one directory? If so, that's ridiculous. I think I need to be less critical of the forkers.
Hehehehe. It's not that we're deliberately forking off - it's more that:
1. pg has been talking about this language for years
2. he has built up a big fan club
3. he released arc in a "not-quite-done" state and unleashed a firestorm of third-party fixes
4. he hasn't updated arc again for more than a month or so.
So yes, although we're not deliberately forking off, I fear this is just what will happen unless pg updates us all again within the next few months, or puts major parts of Anarki in Arc3.
Within Anarki all the file serving was done out of the special docroot directory (at least it was a month ago). I'm not sure if disallowing "../" is what we want or if it what we really want is to ensure that all file serving comes from that dir.
