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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > As an aside, I do understand that the above error message can be an
> > > annoyance for people who like to play lazy games with URLs, and
> > > subsequently it's likely that I'll be adding some additional smarts to
> > > silently auto-forward to a slashed URL if the slashed URL form exists and
> > > the HTTP referrer header is undefined.
> >
> > NES/iWS do this automagically.
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> I thought basically all webservers did that automatically. That's why I had
> to specifically add something to stop it from happening.
But why? Is there a load on the server which makes trailing slashless URLs
incredibly inefficient? I find that what is in place to stop those
slashless URLs from being forwarded is quite a significant irritation (and
others have told me that as well). Its a pain to have to click something
extra when you don't put one character in a URL.
I guess I should ask - is there a legitimate technical reason you did this,
or is it a way to 'teach' people to key in a URL 'correctly?' I've honestly
never seen an error page show up on any other server when I forgot to
include a slash - so, why LUGNET?
FUT - admin.general
-Tim
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