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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:27:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> I hoped you didn't plan to give a 404 or a blank page,
Nope, definitely not!
> Actually, it's that my LEGO page is:
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> http://www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Lego/Lego.html
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> And I have http://www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Lego/index.html do a redirect to
> the correct page.
Aha, I see. OK.
BTW, any particular reason why to use the form
http://www.foo.bar/zort/blurfl/blurfl.html
over
http://www.foo.bar/zort/blurfl/
?
> One thing which can also be annoying with some auto-redirects is that it
> keeps you from using the back button to back up to before the page since by
> the time you click it, the redirect has put you to the next page. I think
> this is due to a zero delay on the redirect method I use in my index.html
> pages.
It depends on which type of redirect you use. If you use a real redirect
using 301 in an HTTP 'Location:' header, it doesn't have that unwanted
side-effect.
> Of course if one really wants to get out of hand with the user friendliness,
> you should also do a case insensitive match if a page doesn't seem to be
> found. I really hate case sensitivity on file names. I can perhaps understand
> it for identifiers in a program, but how is a non-technical user supposed to
> know what the difference between foo.txt and Foo.Txt is?
Any user can plainly see that 'f' and 'F' are different characters?
BTW, case-insensitive filename matching in URLs has the same evil problem as
the missing / with regard to link colorings.
--Todd
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| (...) Well, no. Not any user. Some users can't see at all, you know. Some users have trouble typing shifted characters and therefore use all lower case or ALL CAPS because they really don't have a choice. Those users are worth accomodating, I feel. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I guess I just don't like having the document be in a file "index.html", but want a directory with related documents. (...) Is that something one can access by creating an html file, or do you have to have access to the web server code in some (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I hoped you didn't plan to give a 404 or a blank page, what I was saying is that it would be annoying to be using someone else's page of links (because it's so complete) and always get a "lecture" page until you can convince them to fix it. Of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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