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Re: Server freakage today
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:48:30 GMT
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message
news:974106662.774732@ns.cci.dk...
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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:
> http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev
> However, a similarly named page does exist:
> http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/
> What is the idea?
It's a convention. .../cad/dev points to a file and .../cad/dev/ points to a
directory. If directory browsing is not allowed the webserver serves the
default document in that directory.
Many filesystems do not allow files and directories to be of the same name
but if a filesystem does allow it, the '/' distinguises between the two. So
the convention is to use the '/' at the end, so URLs are the same on all
kinds of filesystem-based webservers.
-Frank
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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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| (...) 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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