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		RomanPushkin on July 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC (2009) Actually, it's easily fixable with: relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" (google that). It was fixable many years ago, and I have no any idea why today it is on hacker news, lol

gecko on July 12, 2015 [–]

You're completely right that this got fixed in ASP.NET 4, but I still think it's a fun read to see how an unyielding tribute to backwards compatibility can have really odd implications.

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