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Re: Trailing Slashes (Re: Stick in the mud...)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:18:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
That wouldn't fix the issue with LUGNET, because LUGNET doesn't redirect
san-trailing-slash hits.
Steve
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| (...) In cases where there isn't a redirection, it shouldn't do anything fancy to it. How would that not fix the issue? Maybe I misunderstood the problem. I thought you were saying that IE stores (URL) and (URL) as (URL) and (URL) in the history. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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