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Posted by Els on 07/31/06 09:34
Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Els wrote:
>
>> So.. those pages that actually use filenames without extensions are
>> all on servers that are configured differently from the default
>> configuration?
>
> I don't think that's necessarily so: on a default-configured server,
> I would expect a file named "somewhere" to be returned with the
> default content type, which always used to be text/plain and I think
> (BICBW) still is.
Just tested locally, and that's still true.
> However, if you activate MultiViews then you can *call* your files
> "somewhere.html" or "somewhere.shtml" or "somewhere.php", and use
> the URL "somewhere", and the reader need never know what the file
> extension was. More to the point, you can change it whenever you
> please, without having to change the URL,
>
>> These two links:
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
>>
>> Are both valid and correct. If you add a slash after the first one,
>> you'll get a 404.
>
> Indeed. All consistent with what I said.
>
>> If you leave out the slash from the second one, the
>> browser (even my IE6) will add the slash.
>
> Do I have to repeat that the server does not merely "add the slash",
> but has to send back a redirection transaction (which would otherwise
> have been unnecessary)?
I was only describing what I saw as a user, to distinguish between the
two cases. Sorry, I should have used the words "a slash is added"
instead of "the browser will add the slash".
> Without this move it, in general, isn't
> possible to make relative URLs work correctly.
>
>> You're saying their server is configured differently in that respect
>> than other servers?
>
> No: if you proceed in this way, then pretty-much any server's default
> configuration will respond by returning a redirection transaction, to
> the corrected URL with the trailing slash.
My point was though: only if there isn't a file by that name there.
I'm sure you weren't saying otherwise, I just read it that way from
your first reply. My mistake I suppose.
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