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Subject: 
Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:12:56 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
It's not so bad when a server adds a trailing slash when someone types a URL
in wrong by hand (like something they saw printed wrong on purpose in a print
advertisement), but when a server allows _written_ URLs (i.e., from links at
other pages) to be wrong, therein lies the can of worms.  Hmm, a server could
certainly look at the HTTP referrer on-the-fly and decide how lenient to be
based on the origin of the URL.

Oh goody, the xoom factor...

What is really needed is a protocol to inform the owner of the referring
page that they have a bad link.

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Stick in the mud...
 
(...) What does Xoom do? (...) That would be awesome!!! --Todd (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Stick in the mud...
 
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) You're technically correct. Leaving off a trailing slash is technically "wrong" syntax. But before we condemn servers for automatically adding it back in and doing what the user expects (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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