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Date:      14 Dec 1998 15:17:03 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
Cc:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/8038
Message-ID:  <xzpd85m7qqo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Wolfram Schneider's message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:04:38 %2B0100"
References:  <19981212201923.B4451@panke.de.freebsd.org> <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812131208060.4086-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> <19981213200438.A627@panke.de.freebsd.org>

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Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> writes:
> Homepages - e.g. http://www.freebsd.org - does not require a trailing slash. 

Yes they do. Please read RFC1738. URLs such as the one above lack the
(non-optional) document part.

> Adding the / to the homepage is the job of the web browser, 
> not of the web server.

Adding the missing slash is a misfeature of popular browsers.

When it comes to missing slashes after subdirectory names (e.g.
<URL:http://www.freebs.org/~des>), there's no way for the browser to
know that there should be a trailing slash there. All HTTP/1.x servers
I know of send back a code 301.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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