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Re: Not at all a pact with the devil...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:51:12 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > > What you've cited above doesn't have anything to do with the choice of
> > > server technologies, much less with the choice or non-choice of MS. That
> > > page comes up because I specifically added a URL handler for that type of
> > > URL, and it would be there whether the server was running Apache or IIS
> > > or anything.
> >
> > Not quite true...
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> You mean there are webservers that don't automatically forward trailing-
> slashless URLs to trailing-slashed URLs by default, and have a configurable
> error page?
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> > > 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 as Larry has argued before, whether YOU think you are in the right or not,
you are going counterintuitive to the vast majority of the Internet.
There ARE times where you should just get off the high horse and do something
for the convenience of the majority.
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) I don't think it's about being "right" or "wrong." The reason that it's "counterintuitive" relative to the rest of the Internet is that 99.999999% of websites don't let you create non-index webpages that don't use filename extensions. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) You mean there are webservers that don't automatically forward trailing- slashless URLs to trailing-slashed URLs by default, and have a configurable error page? (...) I thought basically all webservers did that automatically. That's why I had (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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