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Re: Not at all a pact with the devil...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:15:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Courtney writes:
> But why? Is there a load on the server which makes trailing slashless URLs
> incredibly inefficient?
I wouldn't say "incredibly inefficient," but definitely wasteful and
inefficient. It's no big deal for occasional hand-typed URLs, but it's
extremely annoying for links.
> I find that what is in place to stop those
> slashless URLs from being forwarded is quite a significant irritation (and
> others have told me that as well). Its a pain to have to click something
> extra when you don't put one character in a URL.
I agree completely, and in the case of hand-typed URLs (where HTTP_REFERER
comes in undefined) it should auto-forward to the URL that it thinks you
really meant.
> I guess I should ask - is there a legitimate technical reason you did this,
> or is it a way to 'teach' people to key in a URL 'correctly?' I've honestly
> never seen an error page show up on any other server when I forgot to
> include a slash - so, why LUGNET?
Because the URL
http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/images
actually refers to a page named 'images' in the /publish/ftx/guide/ directory.
Similarly, the URL
http://news.lugnet.com/castle
actually refers to a page named 'castle' in the root directory. Only there's
no page named 'castle' and hence the error message.
Thus, you could have a directory
http://www.lugnet.com/~140/foo/
and at the same time a directory
http://www.lugnet.com/~140/foo
because the page names are magically file-extensionless. (I wouldn't
recommend having both unless you're having one forward to the other for
legacy reasons, but it's possible indeed.)
--Todd
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G7uDtL.IHw@lugnet.com... (...) Any way to differenitate between the two? (...) Hmm...could it? Also, if you're trying to eliminate links to slashless directories, why not put a notice on the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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