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Posted by Jim Higson on 11/24/34 11:45
frederick wrote:
> I've just come across a link to this odd-looking URL:
> http://www.prbm.com/interest/i.htm?manuscripts-d-f.shtml~main
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to use of the "~main" at the end?
In general (but not in this case) ~foo is UNIX-speak for a user's home
directory. A home directory is like "My Documents" on Windows. For example
on my machine, ~jim is shorthand for the path /home/jim
You sometimes see addresses like http://example.com/~harry to mean harry's
webspace on example.com's servers. Academia seems to be quite keen on this
URL scheme.
Anyway, web servers can interpret the part of the URL between the domain and
the first '?' symbol any way they want. For the URL you posted it seems
they just use '~' because the author couldn't think of anything better.
--
Jim
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