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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:40:38 GMT
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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 address I typed before, the trailing slash would not be
included and I would go to the re-direct page.
Now, with your silent redirect, you work around this IE bug, and all is
right with the world.
Cary
"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:G7yq4B.1Dz@lugnet.com...
> 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > An unrelated example: Check out the page
> >
> > http://www.lugnet.com/spotlight
> >
> > That's a page named 'spotlight' situated off the root of the site. It • used
> > to be called
> >
> > http://www.lugnet.com/?p=spotlight
> >
> > 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 • .
> >
> > 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:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/castle
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> it will silently auto-forward you to the correct URL:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/castle/
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> 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.
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> Similarly, if you type in the URL of a member page by hand without the
> trailing slash, for example:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/~1/DinoTron
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> 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:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/~1/DinoTron/
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> 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.
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> --Todd
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> 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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| Todd & All, I was looking into doing some things that LUGNET had to offe,r but I can't seem to remember how to get / change my password to LUGNET. I am a member, so what do I need to do? Any help is greatly appreciated! :) Scott #227! S. -- (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Stick in the mud...
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| (...) I wonder if this was the IE trailing-/ issue that ++Lar was referring to last week. (...) It's too bad it was there in the first place, but I'm glad to hear it's no longer an issue for you. --Todd (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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: (URL) will silently auto-forward you to the correct URL: (URL) for if you type it in wrong by (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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