- From: Martin Raknerud <martin.raknerud@klassekampen.no>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:32:31 +0100
- To: "Cestone, Tom MR" <cestonet@hq.5sigcmd.army.mil>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
At 09:29 12.03.98 -0500, you wrote: >I tried to open your FAQ but it came back with "Server not available" >message. Hm. >Need an explanation and the meanings of the coding options of the >"~" commonly called a "tilde" in the path of the second set of URLs >listed above. Having a ~ placed in the uri/url of your webpage doesnt have anything to say for how the code should be, neither can you do anything inside your code to either exlude or include a tilde. For the code, the coder or the browser it is simply a part of the adress for a document, just as the anything else. >I have heard the "~" is more "dynamic" than a regular path and that is >about it. Could you explain it and tell me the pros and cons of the >subject ? Can it be coded by the HTML author or is this something that >has to be done at the WEB Server administrator level ? What HTML level >incorporated this feature ? What resources explain more about it ? As said, tilde hasnt got anything to do with html, its just a part of the adress. As far as i know tilde is a quite common thing for unix webservers, atleast my one has, and significe its an adress pointing to the webdirectory of a an useraccount. The diffrence betweeen ex http://www.feskar.net/martinr/ and http://www.feskar.net/~martinr/ is that the first is merely a subdirectory under http://www.feskar.net/ called martinr and the other is a pointer to the user martinr 's webdirectory. If your new to html, starting at ex NCSAs beginners guide at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html isnt such a bad idea. Martin --------------------------- http://www.feskar.net/~martinr/ |
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