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In lugnet.admin.general, Christopher Lindsey writes:
> Frank Buiting wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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 .../cad/dev/.
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 http://www.abcd.com/ even though
ftp://www.abcd.com/ would be a correct URL too but pointing to a different
resource.
Anyway, you are correct that it's common practice, but the LUGNET URLs
follow the guidelines.
> The fact that LUGNET doesn't do this leads me to believe that it's using
> some sort of ScriptAlias to rewrite the URL to a CGI script or somesuch.
I think so too (perhaps Perl instead of CGI).
> But I'm just guessing about the LUGNET setup. :)
me too :-)
-Frank
followups to ot.geek
[1] Just a dummy URL ...
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