Re: URI reference to a directory from John Cowan on 2003-08-28 (uri@w3.org from August 2003)

From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:57:46 -0400
To: Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.nu>
Cc: uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <20030828165746.GL7272@skunk.reutershealth.com>

Daniel Brockman scripsit:

> So does http://a/b identify the same resource as http://a/b/, and, if it
> doesn't, what is the semantical difference?

It is different abstractly.  Exactly what difference in behavior is seen depends
on the idiosyncratic rules of the server at a.

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