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(...) Good news. It turned out to be a bug in some of my own code. It was hard to find but easy to fix. Technical details follow. I was able to reproduce the symptoms of the problem by asking the webserver for a bogus URL that confused it, for (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Two or more slashes - well, I find it annoying that I have to type any slash at all! If I type "news.lugnet.com/cad/dev" I get the answer: Oops! The page you requested does not exist: (URL) However, a similarly named page does exist: (URL) is (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:974106662.77473....cci.dk... (...) [snip] (...) slash at all! (...) It's a convention. .../cad/dev points to a file and .../cad/dev/ points to a directory. If directory browsing is not (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Although it is a common, accepted practice to notice that .../cad/dev is actually a directory, then redirect it to the proper URL. For example, under Apache mod_rewrite .../cad/dev is usually automatically rewritten (and redirected) to (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) True, but that is mainly because if no 'dev' file exists the webserver assumes you meant 'dev/'. It's similar to that when you're typing www.abcd.com[1] it is assumed you mean (URL) even though ftp://www.abcd.com/ would be a correct URL too (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) i.e. Todd is being pedantic. But that's okay. :) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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