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.acl files not deleted, become unfindable

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend, security

Research direction

Trace the JavaScript resource-deletion path for a file with a corresponding .acl file, then inspect how container emptiness is determined. Reproduce deletion of /foo/bar.txt and confirm that its /foo/bar.txt.acl is removed or otherwise handled, and that /foo can subsequently be deleted.

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Description

If I delete a file /foo/bar.txt that is controlled by /foo/bar.txt.acl, the .acl file does not get deleted. It becomes invisible because without being able to query /foo/bar.txt's link header, there's no way to know where its .acl should be and .acl files are not discover-able with a GET on a container. This now-unfindable file then prevents us from deleting it's container /foo/ since the container is non-empty and returns 409 on attempt to delete it even though it "looks" empty.

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