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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:09:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> > [...]
> > It would be nice if the server would just output the intended page without
> > sending a moved permanently error, increasing network traffic and log size.
> > [...]
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> Do you mean that if a browser requested some page /foo/bar which didn't exist,
> but a page /foo/bar/ existed, that it would be nice if the server output the
> content of /foo/bar/ when it was requested to serve /foo/bar ? If so, • wouldn't
> that require the server to rewrite (on the fly) all HREF= and SRC= attributes
> of tags and any other extensions (including embedded JavaScript code) which
> might use relative URLs, since /foo/bar is in the /foo/ directory and • /foo/bar/
> is in the /foo/bar/ directory? And if so, could a server even do this with
> 100% certainty of getting it correct? And how would crawlers/indexers most
> likely deal with this duality of pages?
Optionally yes. The admin could choose the least expensive mode to operate in,
redirect or rewrite (probably redirect now that you mention it).
KL
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| (...) Do you mean that if a browser requested some page /foo/bar which didn't exist, but a page /foo/bar/ existed, that it would be nice if the server output the content of /foo/bar/ when it was requested to serve /foo/bar ? If so, wouldn't that (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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