fix: check directory traversal attack without file system visit #473
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We don't want to leak information of which files exist to adversaries, but the origin version of
ServeDir
did.We are using
canonicalize
to make surefile_path
is simple, but, unfortunately, it would visit file system, which might be slow, and attackers could count the time that server response, with hundreds of requests, attacker would know which file is exists even it is not sub path ofroot
.read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack