<div dir="ltr">Hi Jeff,<div><br></div><div>I prefer to close this ticket without including the PR since we have the option to override the default setting in the mapserver config file.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Tamas</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Jeff McKenna via MapServer-dev <<a href="mailto:mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. okt. 20., K, 13:25):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Tamas,<br>
<br>
It sounds like you are going to tackle this through documentation <br>
instead. Please make sure to make the warning stand-out in the doc <br>
(using the 'warning' directive) as this change could be a major security <br>
vulnerability - or, I can add that warning later.<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
<br>
-jeff<br>
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On 2026-10-18 3:11 p.m., Tamas Szekeres via MapServer-dev wrote:<br>
> Hi Developers,<br>
> <br>
> We had a discussion <<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-</a> <br>
> dev/2022-February/016699.html> a couple of years ago about allowing UNC <br>
> paths in mapfiles on Windows. I've created a ticket <<a href="https://github.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/</a> <br>
> MapServer/MapServer/issues/7668> and a suggested PR <<a href="https://github.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/</a> <br>
> MapServer/MapServer/pull/7669> to implement the change, but I'm a bit <br>
> uncertain whether this requires an RFC and voting or we can treat this <br>
> as a bugfix only. Let me know what you think.<br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> <br>
> Tamas<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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