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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 21:41:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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?
>
> --Todd
Isn't it possible for the server to generate a /foo/bar page when its
requested, and see that /foo/bar/ exists, then auto-redirect the user
to /foo/bar/, therefore evading this problem?
-Tim
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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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