RE: what are the right URL?

Gisbert Amm wrote:

> on my website I use these links:

> http://www.w3c.org/Style/XSL

> http://www.w3c.org/XML

1 - Masayasu Ishikawa mentioned the domain name: w3c.org will redirect to
w3.org, which is the correct name.

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).

> thank you and greetings from germany

Greetings from Arizona!

Thanasis Kinias
Information Dissemination Team, Information Technology
Arizona State University
Tempe, Ariz., U.S.A.

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