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Posted by Nico Schuyt on 07/31/06 02:06
Els wrote:
> Nico Schuyt wrote:
>> How could "somewhere" be a valid location? It could be
>> about anything like somewhere.htm, s-.html, s-jpg etc.
> Exactly.
>> IMO only somewhere/ is valid.
> Valid, yes. But it wouldn't be the same thing:
> http://example.com/somewhere/
> http://example.com/somewhere
> The first one points to the index file (if there is any) of the
> directory with the name 'somewhere'.
> The second one points to a file by the name 'somewhere' in the root
> directory. Most servers though, are set up to respond to the second
> one as if there was a trailing slash, as soon as it detects that there
> is no file by the name of "somewhere".
The server makes a correction of an invalid URI :-)
>> You can define files like index.htm or index.php as defaults. Is it
>> also possible to set an extension like .htm als default??
> I can even set a file like foo.xyz as default. It's only a line in the
> server's configuration.
Agreed, but that means a file like foo.xyz will be the default startup file
in a directory.
What I meant was a configuration where the extension could be ommitted. But
even that seems to be possible as I read in the article where David Parnell
pointed to: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
--
Nico Schuyt
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl/
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