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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 23:28:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> > 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.
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> Any way to differenitate between the two?
With very high accuracy, yes.
> > 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.
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> Hmm...could it?
Yes.
> > Because the URL
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> > http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/images
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> > actually refers to a page named 'images' in the /publish/ftx/guide/
> > directory.
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> Page...which, there is no page, right?
No, there *is* a page called 'images' there! You can click that URL above
and go there.
> And if that is a page, why doesn't it have an extension?
Because that's not the URL syntax for FTX pages. Extensions aren't used --
they're useless baggage.
http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/name
--Todd
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G7uH6z.4K8@lugnet.com... (...) Cool. (...) Oh, ok, I read the statement wrong then. Silly question - but I feel like asking it anyways :) Why is it a page called images versus a directory (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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