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Re: Stick in the mud...
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> In this example, if /foo/bar doesn't exist the user should get what /foo/bar/
> points to, one way or another. Not a page to help them get to it. [...]
I agree that this is ideal in cases where the user may have mis-typed the URL
by hand (or had been given the wrong URL from, say, a print ad in a magazine,
and they typed it in by hand). I'm not sure it's ideal for cases where someone
explicitly wrote the URL wrong when they made a link from another page.
--Todd
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| (...) Except that it's a pain to get a web page author to fix broken links on their page which is effectively what you're saying. Given the way web pages currently work, I think it's important to keep from breaking web pages. To this extent, I have (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) /foo/bar/ (...) someone (...) What's the difference between someone typing in a url into a browser and typing a url into a text editor? Not much, except perhaps the person typing it into a text editor should consider proper netiquette. A good (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) In this example, if /foo/bar doesn't exist the user should get what /foo/bar/ points to, one way or another. Not a page to help them get to it. Either redirect (current practice) or rewrite (possible option) /foo/bar to /foo/bar/. If you (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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