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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:31:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> > [...]
> > Call me lazy, won't bother me - /castle should work. www.hbo.com/sopranos
> > works. I guess the system administrator at hbo.com is more tolerant of
> > "lazy" users. Or maybe more interested in having his system fulfill its
> > purpose than in being 100% technically correct when it comes to URLs?
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> It's not that, Mike, it's that /castle is actually a valid URL of a valid
> webpage (it just happens to be empty). When I view that, it shows me a
> button which says "Start This Page" and I could click that and type in
> content onto that page if I needed to. However, since /castle/ already
> exists, it's confusing.
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> An unrelated example: Check out the page
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> http://www.lugnet.com/spotlight
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> That's a page named 'spotlight' situated off the root of the site. It used
> to be called
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> http://www.lugnet.com/?p=spotlight
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> but no longer needs the '?p=' junk. Since there is no page or directory
> /spotlight/ it's not particularly confusing as is the case with /castle .
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> I agree that it would be most helpful if the /castle page helped people find
> the /castle/ directory, and I intend to "fix" this.
OK, it's now fixed. It wasn't as easy as I'd hoped, but what I kluged up is
plenty safe.
Now, if you now type in the URL without the trailing slash:
http://news.lugnet.com/castle
it will silently auto-forward you to the correct URL:
http://news.lugnet.com/castle/
That's for if you type it in wrong by hand. If you've got a link somewhere
that does it wrong, you still get the error message.
Similarly, if you type in the URL of a member page by hand without the
trailing slash, for example:
http://www.lugnet.com/~1/DinoTron
then, seeing that page doesn't exist and that a page with a trailing slash
does exists, it will silently auto-forward to the correct URL:
http://www.lugnet.com/~1/DinoTron/
And again, that's only if you type it in wrong (without the slash) by hand;
if you're following a bad link, you'll still get the error message and you'll
have to click through manually.
--Todd
p.s. Note: If you click the trailing-slashless URLs contained in this
message, you may or may not get the error page depending on how your browser
caches pages and how it sends the HTTP_REFERER. That is, if you happen to
type in the bad URL by hand, your browser may "cache" the fact that it auto-
forwards to the good URL, causing it to bypass the error page later if you
click the bad URL contained in a link. If that's confusing, never mind.
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| Thanks for fixing this, Todd. One annoyance in Internet Explorer is that the history captured in the Address text box does not keep the trailing slash. So, even if I typed the slash by hand once, if I use the down-arrow to save typing and go to the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It's not that, Mike, it's that /castle is actually a valid URL of a valid webpage (it just happens to be empty). When I view that, it shows me a button which says "Start This Page" and I could click that and type in content onto that page if I (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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