- From: Daniel R. Tobias <dan@tobias.name>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:39:23 -0400
- To: uri@w3.org
On 31 Aug 2003 at 11:22, Al Gilman wrote: > The file or directory that you want is probably correctly identified > by the URI > > file:///e:/h If it's actually a directory, most likely the correct URI is file:///e:/h/ with the trailing slash at the end. People get really sloppy about leaving out the trailing slash of directory URIs because most Web servers are "nice" about it and redirect the slashless forms to the version with the slash, but in fact the use of the wrong form can produce serious mistakes in interpreting relative URIs, as seen here. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/
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