- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:52:50 -0000
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
> From: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr [SMTP:Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr] > > But you can also access a document without any suffix and only > the server knows if the URI points to a document or a directory, > not the client. I consider that the client doesn't have to add a /. > Documents and directories are implementation details in the server; that there is commonly a correlation between a URL and a directory path doesn't guarantee that to be so. The particular problem with dropping the / is that the resulting redirect isn't cacheable, so the request goes end to end even when a local cache has the required page. Redirects are essential here, otherwise relative URLs will break. In the case quoted the client has broken because the / form was tried first and, reasonably, rejected (some serveres would ignore the excess pathinfo) but Amaya thought that the non-/ form must be equivalent, so has refused to refetch it.
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