Re: URL Question, hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org

Do you people get my posts or do you just ignore them? WTF?

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At 04:17 PM 2/28/02 -0600, Linda Mercer/Wishstar wrote:
>I know that building our search engine, it can't spider the link without=20
>the slash at the end of the URL so my  uneducated guess is that the=20
>difference in handling the URL with and without the slash may be related to=
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>CGI scripts?
>
>Linda
>
>At 02:26 PM 2/28/02, you wrote:
>>At 11:03 28/02/02 -0500, Todd.Alexander(at)epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>><snip/>
>>>When it comes to URL's, you'll see a lot of people either end their
>>>URL's with a "/" and others don't.
>>>
>>>For example, http://www.epa.gov/   rather than   http://www.epa.gov
>>>
>>>Is there any type of rule or preference out there that is for best
>>>practices?
>><snip/>
>>
>>Sometimes the trailing `/' matters, other times it doesn't.
>>
>>http://www.example.com will almost always redirect to=20
>>http://www.example.com/. The redirection will be seamless and almost=20
>>instant. There will be a slight overhead, but not much. If you are getting=
=20
>>so many hits that this is an issue, you will be needing to look into lots=
=20
>>of other optimizations too.
>>
>>I suppose I could set my my webserver to treat http://www.example.com and=
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>>http://www.example.com/ differently, but I don't see any reason to.
>>
>>The training `/' becomes important when its on the end of a path. For=
 example,
>>
>>http://www.example.com/path/to/document/ and=20
>>http://www.example.com/path/to/document
>>
>>are potentially different.
>>
>>On http://aamcf.co.uk/ I use content negotiation[1] so that the filename=
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>>extension doesn't have to appear on the end of the URI.=20
>>http://aamcf.co.uk/temp/trailingshlash and=20
>>http://aamcf.co.uk/temp/trailingslash/ are different things (for a start=
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>>one exists, the other doesn't)
>>
>>Interestingly, odd things happen if I put something at=20
>>http://aamcf.co.uk/temp/trailingslash/ as well as=20
>>http://aamcf.co.uk/temp/trailingslash, but I suspect this is due to either=
=20
>>my ISP's cache being odd or some of the other stuff on my server being
helpful.
>>
>> From a usability perspective, never make the slashed and unslashed=20
>> versions of a URI point to different things. Its very confusing.
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>[1] Why? see http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
>>
>>--
>>http://aamcf.co.uk/
>>
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