Subject:
|
Re: Stick in the mud...
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:33:02 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1617 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> [...]
> Call me lazy, won't bother me - /castle should work. www.hbo.com/sopranos
> works. I guess the system administrator at hbo.com is more tolerant of
> "lazy" users. Or maybe more interested in having his system fulfill its
> purpose than in being 100% technically correct when it comes to URLs?
It's not that, Mike, it's that /castle is actually a valid URL of a valid
webpage (it just happens to be empty). When I view that, it shows me a button
which says "Start This Page" and I could click that and type in content onto
that page if I needed to. However, since /castle/ already exists, it's
confusing.
An unrelated example: Check out the page
http://www.lugnet.com/spotlight
That's a page named 'spotlight' situated off the root of the site. It used to
be called
http://www.lugnet.com/?p=spotlight
but no longer needs the '?p=' junk. Since there is no page or directory
/spotlight/ it's not particularly confusing as is the case with /castle .
I agree that it would be most helpful if the /castle page helped people find
the /castle/ directory, and I intend to "fix" this.
--Todd
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Stick in the mud...
|
| (...) OK, it's now fixed. It wasn't as easy as I'd hoped, but what I kluged up is plenty safe. Now, if you now type in the URL without the trailing slash: (URL) will silently auto-forward you to the correct URL: (URL) for if you type it in wrong by (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Stick in the mud...
|
| (...) No, I don't think it is extreme. In fact, I think it might just be applicable to LUGNET in some way, given the fact that many of the set listing pages have affiliate links on them to eToys (and aren't there some pages with links containing (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
85 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
