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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:19:43 -0500
From: Jim correia <correia@barebones.com>
Cc: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu>
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <auto-000000897471@barebones.com>
Subject: Re: what are the right URL?
On Monday, March 12, 2001, at 04:02 PM, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> 2 - A URL pointing to a directory ends in a "/". Servers will correct
> that for you (by redirecting "/XML" to "/XML/", for example), so it's
> not obvious that it's an error to leave off the "/". The problem is
> that you add load to the server because it has to perform an extra
> operation to serve up the correct page (redirect, then serve the page).
This is only true of implementations where the web server maps onto a
file system.
A url is not a file path, and a web server may not map it onto a file
system but onto some arbitrary resource.
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Jim Correia
correia@barebones.com