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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 23:51:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> > > > Because the URL
> > > >
> > > > 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?
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> > No, there *is* a page called 'images' there! You can click that URL above
> > and go there.
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> 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?
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 page of that
directory). If a URL has no trailing slash, then it's not a directory, and
it's a file or page or whatever.
If you type in the name of a directory and you forget the trailing slash, a
webserver will typically respond to your browser with a 'Location:' header
telling your browser to reload at a new location -- the correct location.
The reason the server is telling this to your browser is because your browser
gave it a wrong URL, and the server wants the browser to send the _right_ URL.
In other words, on NO website ANYWHERE does
http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch
EVER refer to a directory. It might SEEM like it does, but to think so is
to be mistaken. The truth is that the server says back, "Uh, you asked for
/bar/bletch and I don't have a /bar/bletch, but I do have a /bar/bletch/ if
you'd like that instead. Here is the proper URL -- ask me for it the right
way and I'll give it to you under the right 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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