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diff --git a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn
index 63ac4bc31..5097acaef 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn
@@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ This makes it a little hard to specify which specific binaries should be used, e
     $ENV{PATH}="$ENV{PATH}:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/local/bin";
 
 ? The alternative is of course to patch ikiwiki as suggested in the bug, but I wanted to ask here first :)
+
+> You can use the ENV setting in your setup file to set any environment
+> variables you like. Since ikiwiki.cgi is run by the web browser, that
+> is the best way to ensure ikiwiki always runs with a given variable set.
+> 
+> As a suid program, the ikiwiki wrappers have to sanitize the environment.
+> The ikiwiki script's own sanitization of PATH was done to make perl taint
+> checking happy, but as taint checking is disabled anyway, I have removed
+> that. [[done]] --[[Joey]] 
diff --git a/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn b/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn
index b9c5aca07..cabb21b5c 100644
--- a/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn
+++ b/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn
@@ -7,3 +7,16 @@ I am sent to a page with the URL
 `http://ciffer.net/~svend/ikiwiki.cgi?page=tech%252Fhosts&do=edit`.
 
 I am running ikiwiki 3.20100504~bpo50+1 on Debian Lenny.
+
+
+> But on your page, the Edit link is escaped normally and correctly (using %2F).
+> Look at the page source!
+> 
+> The problem is that your web server is forcing a hard (302) redirect
+> to the doubly-escaped url. In wireshark I see your web server send back:
+
+	HTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\n
+	Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch
+	Location: http://ciffer.net/~svend/ikiwiki.cgi?page=tech%252Fhosts&do=edit
+
+> You'll need to investigate why your web server is doing that... --[[Joey]]