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 Posted by David Dorward on 06/12/05 11:41 
xyZed wrote: 
> www.widget.com 
> www.widget.com/ 
>  
> Which one is right and what's the difference? 
 
Assuming you intended to put an "http://" on the front of those (since a 
relative URL from a Usenet posting doesn't make much sense), then there is 
no difference. They are just different ways of representing the same URL. 
 
http://www.example.com/foo and http://www.example.com/foo/ would be 
different though (the root of the domain is special). Which one is right 
depends on the configuration of the server. Since such similar URLs are 
confusing a well configured server will redirect one to the other (usually 
foo to foo/ as that tends to map onto a directory containing an index.html 
file). 
 
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