To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.generalOpen lugnet.admin.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / General / 8743
8742  |  8744
Subject: 
Re: Not at all a pact with the devil...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:02:20 GMT
Viewed: 
298 times
  
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:

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.

Heh :)

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.

Ok.

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."

Alright, I get it.

-Tim



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Not at all a pact with the devil...
 
(...) 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)

45 Messages in This Thread:













Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR