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Re: Could you please critique my website? |
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  08-19-04 - 04:15 AM
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Neal <neal413@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:opscr8zaiw6v6656@news.individual.net:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:14:12 GMT, Dave Patton <spam@trap.invalid>
> wrote:
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> I was recently told that, contrary to what you say here and what I
> formerly believed, adding that slash is not "required". If the link
> were to a subdirectory, like http://www.example.com/subdirectory/ ,
> then the slash IS needed to prevent the browser from looking for a
> document named "subdirectory". But in the current context, the server
> will send a default home page in any case.
OK, I was wrong on two counts :-(
First, I shouldn't have said "required".
Secondly, the final character within this quoted
string - "http://www.example.com/" - is not a
"trailing slash". It is in fact the leading slash
of the path part of the URL.
Because a GET request needs to be of the form
'GET / HTTP/1.1', browsers will in effect add
the 'leading slash' when you use "http://www.example.com".
Having said that, it's still good practice to include
the "trailing slash", just so that it does get used
in cases where it is required.
--
Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/
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