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Re: Trailing Slashes (Re: Stick in the mud...)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:42:59 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.SPAMCAKEorg
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > This sounds like a bug in IE. <http://www.example.com/foo> refers to a
> > different thing than <http://www.example.com/foo/>.
> Technically, yes. Human-factors-wise, no -- most people see them as the
> same.
It's a technical bug. :) It's alright for IE to generally assume that they
are the same for the purposes of making a history, but it's wrong to use a
mechanism that doesn't work if they're different.
Web servers generally return a 301 Moved Permanently message when you hit a
directory sans trailing slash. IE should either store both URLs or the one
to which it was redirected. It could compare the two, and if the redirected
result differs by just the trailing slash (or by '/index.*"), set a bit in
the history data saying so.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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