[vlc-devel] [PATCH 4/4] httprequests.lua: return ".." instead of silent directory listing failure

[Pierre Ynard]

Refs #5075, #25021


diff --git a/share/lua/intf/modules/httprequests.lua b/share/lua/intf/modules/httprequests.lua
index fb9f8d6..0559791 100644
--- a/share/lua/intf/modules/httprequests.lua
+++ b/share/lua/intf/modules/httprequests.lua
@@ -380,6 +380,12 @@ getbrowsetable = function ()
     local d = vlc.net.opendir(dir)
     table.sort(d)
 
+    --FIXME: this is the wrong place to do this, but this still offers
+    --some useful mitigation: see #25021
+    if #d == 0 and dir ~= "" then
+        table.insert(d, "..")
+    end
+
     for _,f in pairs(d) do
         if f == ".." or not string.match(f,"^%.") then
             local path = dir..f
-- 
Pierre Ynard
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