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Trailing Slashes (Re: Stick in the mud...)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:23:02 GMT
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Two advance notes:
1. Sorry to bring a possibly dead-horse issue again, but I actually have a
new data point to add.
2. There didn't seem to be a truly stellar place to hang this follow-up, so
I just picked a message that was high up in the thread.
Anyway, here's the situation: I noticed today that in my browser's (IE5.0)
history, trailing slashes are not stored. Since LUGNET requires the
trailing slash, it's hard(er) to use the historic links kept by my browser
to revisit content on LUGNET. This affects both the explicit History
function, and the drop-down, typeahead-matching list attached to the
Address (ie, URL) textbox.
Example: I visited <http://www.lugnet.com/ldraw/parts/> this morning. When
I wanted to return to the page later, I opened history, found the link, and
tried to follow it. All that appeared in the browser was a page that said:
Looking for this?
Where the 'this' was a link to the page I wanted.
I then noticed that there was no trailing slash on the URL in the Address
box. It showed:
http://www.lugnet.com/ldraw/parts
Yuck all around.
Steve
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> However, if you omit the trailing / character and type in
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> http://www.lugnet.com/members
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> then it gives a blank FTX page rather than accessing index.cgi in the
> /members/ directory.
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> I've been debating how to "fix" this situation. Though it's certainly not
> broken from a technical perspective, one could argue that it's broken from
> a human-factors perspective because people have come to have unreasonable
> expectations about making sloppy URLs, namely that it's so common for servers
> to add a trailing slash when the user forgets it or is lazy. I think it's a
> terribly unfortunate thing when servers do this (IMHO they should instead give
> a lecture page about proper URL form and only then act in a fault-tolerant way
> and take the user to the most likely intended destination -- or give a list of
> close matches), but it seems to be a long-standing tradition. :-/
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| (...) Actually, those changes are actually all still in place and still working. For example, if you guess and type in: (URL) be auto-forwarded to the correct URL: (URL) if you omit the trailing / character and type in (URL) it gives a blank FTX (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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