Re: Fwd: URL Question

I've been to a few sites where leaving off the trailing backslash caused a 
page loading failure. I think they were on Apache servers.

At 02:47 AM 03/01/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>>From: Todd.Alexander(at)epamail.epa.gov
>>To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
>>Subject: URL Question
>>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:03:22 -0500
>>
>>Hey, all.  I'm new to the list, so pardon me if something goes astray
>>here.  But I have a question.
>>
>>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?  I personally like using that end backslash.  It makes the
>>URL look better.  But I've been told (by pretty unreliable sources, I
>>might add) that if you don't close out your URL with that end backslash,
>>then it will hit the server twice.  Once for the original request, and
>>then a redirect to the actual URL with the ending backslash.  It made
>>sense when you see that if you type in a URL that doesn't have that
>>ending backslash, it will hit the URL and send back to the address bar
>>(in Netscape 4.7 and below, though not in IE) a URL with that ending
>>backslash.
>>
>>Am I making a lick of sense?
>>
>>Sorry if I'm not!  Thanks!
>>
>>Alec
>>todd.alexander(at)epa.gov
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