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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:51:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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. [...]
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> 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.
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 example of the exceptional /foo/bar scenario is lugnet.com/announce.
There is an ambiguity between lugnet.com/announce and lugnet.com/announce/.
The funny thing is lugnet.com/announce exists only point out the fact that it
exists and the exceptional condition has occurred. Furthermore,
the only relevant content on lugnet.com/announce is a link to
lugnet.com/announce/ which the user would have normally been redirected to if
the exceptional page diddn't exist. Seems like a waste of time and resources
to me.
Interestingly, lugnet.com returns the same content as lugnet.com/
as one would expect. Why not create an exception condition for lugnet.com
also? I bet lots of people link to and type lugnet.com instead of lugnet.com/.
Shouldn't we set them straight?
Of course not. The whole thing is silly. The only time I have ever seen
an ambiguous condition between directories and files is the ones on lugnet
that just point to the otherwise unambiguous content. The only concequence
is a 301 redirect and an entry in the log file. That's a small price to pay
for delivering the content the user requested.
KL
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| (...) There's a big difference: When a person types a URL in wrong by hand, it's usually either a mistake or because they were being lazy (not to imply that there's anything wrong with being lazy) or because they weren't aware of the actual (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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