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Re: Odd URL Thing
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Date: 
Thu, 25 May 2000 03:38:51 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
Something odd started happening yesterday.  In the web interface, when I leave
the trailing slash off a LUGNET URL, it takes me to a sort of blank version of
the page.  If I add the trailing slash, everything is OK.

Try it.

Broken: <http://www.lugnet.com/cad>
Works:  <http://www.lugnet.com/cad/>

I wouldn't be so surprised to get a 404 (401? Whatever--page not found) with
the broken URL, but the semi-page is just strange.

What it's actually showing you there is a blank (not yet created) webpage
called /cad off the root.  (That's different from the /cad/ directory off
the root.)  If you type in /foo in place of /cad you'll see something
similar.

I'll explain more soon.  :)

--Todd



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Odd URL Thing
 
(...) Ooh, the suspense is killing me :-). Can't wait. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations at: (URL) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Odd URL Thing
 
(...) Right. I kinda figured something like that. I just didn't realize it might be intentional. (...) I can hardly wait. :) Steve (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Odd URL Thing
 
(...) Interestingly, because of various issues, in my own web pages, I've started to rely less on index.html and instead having a specific page within a directory. I then make index.html auto-redirect to the correct page. One thing this means is (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)

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Something odd started happening yesterday. In the web interface, when I leave the trailing slash off a LUGNET URL, it takes me to a sort of blank version of the page. If I add the trailing slash, everything is OK. Try it. Broken: (URL) Works: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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