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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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