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Re: Trailing Slashes (Re: Stick in the mud...)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:14:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> > 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
> >
> > <http://www.lugnet.com/foo/> and <http://www.example.com/bar/>
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> > as
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> > <http://www.lugnet.com/foo> and <http://www.example.com/bar>
> >
> > in the history.
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> That's what I heard too. Hmm. That jives with my findings from MSIE3 long
> ago -- it was confused about the coloring. But here, this is an even worse
> bug. Steve, what version of MSIE are you seeing this with?
MSIE5.0
> The thing is, if you've never visited <http://www.lugnet.com/foo> but you
> have visited <http://www.lugnet.com/foo/>, no browser should ever truncate
> the URL such that the next time you try to go back to that URL, it sends the
> wrong URL by default.
I agree completely. Too bad we live in a world with MSIE.
> How about MSIE's bookmarks? If you bookmark <http://www.lugnet.com/foo/> and
> then resummon it, does MSIE correctly request <http://www.lugnet.com/foo/>
> from the server or does it mistakenly request <http://www.lugnet.com/foo>
> from the server?
Bookmarks seem to work correctly -- the trailing slash is retained.
> The thing about 301 Moved Permanently messages is that the server is saying,
> "Oops, you've sent me a wrong URL. Here is the correct URL and if you ask me
> for that URL, you can have the page." The "Looking for this?" page that the
> LUGNET webserver gives for some pages was intended to be shown to people
> who've made wrong links, to help prevent them and prevent them propagating.
> It's unfortunate that a browser as popular as MSIE would burden every
> webserver it encounters by truncating off the trailing slash without user
> intervention. :-( :-( :-(
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> Does MSIE correctly handle URLs like these?--
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> http://www.foo.bar/glort/info/grunt.asp?page=/skus/lego/starwars/
I couldn't even begin to tell you. Next time I run across one of those,
I'll double-check.
Steve
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| (...) That's what I heard too. Hmm. That jives with my findings from MSIE3 long ago -- it was confused about the coloring. But here, this is an even worse bug. Steve, what version of MSIE are you seeing this with? The thing is, if you've never (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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