- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:04:16 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding@apache.org] ... the ONLY interoperable behavior when faced with a slashless collection request is to perform an external redirect, even if that means existing WebDAV clients will puke and die. I would have thought that interoperability should take into account reality (:-). I can see why you wouldn't want the spec to require that a server treat identically URIs with and without a trailing slash, but I cannot see on what basis you would require a server to not make this equivalence. A client cannot count on them being different resources, since the mapping of URIs to resources is up to the server, but if a server decided to map trailing URIs with and without a trailing slash to the same resource, it should be free to do so. For that matter, if it wanted to map every URL in its URL space to the same resource, it should be free to do so (although it probably wouldn't be an especially popular web site unless that was a really interesting resource :-). Cheers, Geoff
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