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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 23:45:34 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
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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.
> >
> > Any way to differenitate between the two?
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> With very high accuracy, yes.
Cool.
> > > Because the URL
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> > > http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/images
> > >
> > > actually refers to a page named 'images' in the /publish/ftx/guide/
> > > directory.
> >
> > Page...which, there is no page, right?
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> No, there *is* a page called 'images' there! You can click that URL above
> and go there.
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 called
images?
> > And if that is a page, why doesn't it have an extension?
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> Because that's not the URL syntax for FTX pages. Extensions aren't used --
> they're useless baggage.
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> http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/name
Ok. I see where you're coming from now, since you can create FTX pages
server-wide. I think that an effort should be made to not have pages and
directories with the same name in one directory (I think you alluded to that
somewhere) - but I also think that at least in the case of hand-typed URLs, the
server should auto-forward the user to the proper dir with the trailing slash.
Its just a PITA when I want to type out the URL of a newsgroup, forget the
slash, and have to click something extra. Its less of a pain on a T1, but its a
huge pain on dialup...and most users use dialup.
-Tim
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| (...) If it were a directory, it would have a traliing slash and then it would also be a shorthand URL for the index page of that directory. I think you're thinking about it too hard. If a URL has a trailing slash, it's a directory (or the index (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) With very high accuracy, yes. (...) Yes. (...) No, there *is* a page called 'images' there! You can click that URL above and go there. (...) Because that's not the URL syntax for FTX pages. Extensions aren't used -- they're useless baggage. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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