- From: Jim correia <correia@barebones.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:19:43 -0500
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Cc: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu>
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. -- Jim Correia correia@barebones.com
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