Posted by David Dorward on 01/11/05 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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