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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 22:37:07 GMT
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Sorry, your choices are the counterintuitive ones.
1) I don't know what universe you live in, but in MINE, the bulk of sites on the
web translate http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch to http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch/
2) Member pages are the obvious problem here - you designed them wrong from the
start, and are covering by breaking a "convention" used by the majority of sites.
Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > 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.
>
> 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. Naturally in those cases there's no ambiguity between
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> http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch
> and
> http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch/
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> because an actual non-index page would have to be written with a filename
> extension as (for example)
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> http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch.html
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> But here, there is actually ambiguity between the two because there's no
> .html extension for member pages. Thus, the server *actually doesn't know
> and can't tell* which of the two you meant. It can (and arguably should)
> make a guess, but it won't necessarily be correct.
>
> I would have put in autoforwarding a long time ago in cases where /foo/bar
> doesn't exist and /foo/bar/ does exist, except that by the time it gets to
> the point where it can easily check, it has already output the normal HTTP
> headers and thus it's too late to output a 'Location:' header. But I'll
> figure out some trick around this.
>
> --Todd
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