RE: deleting slash at the and of an URL

> From:	Karl-Michael Schneider [SMTP:schneide@phil.uni-passau.de]
> 
> When I delete the slash at the end of an URL without a filename, Amaya
> won't
> reload the page. In some cases the two URL's produce different results,
> for example:
> 
> http://wings.buffalo.edu/soc-sci/linguistics/dryer/atlas/ --> Error 404
> http://wings.buffalo.edu/soc-sci/linguistics/dryer/atlas  --> 200 OK
> 
	These two URLs are different.  Assuming the first
	is more correct, most servers will respond to the
	second with a re-direct to the first.

	Actually, all the responses are correct.  This is not a directory
	and the server takes recovery action for your s-less form.
	At a guess, this is a dynamic page done in a cache friendly
	way.

	404 is the correct response for the first:

	HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
	Server: Apache/1.3.6 Ben-SSL/1.36 (Unix) PHP/3.0.12
	Content-Type: text/html
	Via: 1.1 cache.www.uk.psi.net (NetCache 4.0R4)
	Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:28:44 GMT
	Age: 55
	X-Cache: MISS from athena.bts.co.uk
	Proxy-Connection: close
	                               
	and 200 is the correct response for the second:

	HTTP/1.0 200 OK
	Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:29:34 GMT
	Server: Apache/1.3.6 Ben-SSL/1.36 (Unix) PHP/3.0.12
	Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:35:09 GMT
	Accept-Ranges: bytes
	Content-Type: text/html
	Content-Length: 4253
	ETag: "181aad-109d-387a265d"
	Via: 1.1 cache.www.uk.psi.net (NetCache 4.0R4)
	Age: 252
	X-Cache: HIT from athena.bts.co.uk
	Proxy-Connection: close
	                                
	the third produces a permanent redirect to the second:

	HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
	Server: Apache/1.3.6 Ben-SSL/1.36 (Unix) PHP/3.0.12
	Content-Type: text/html
	Location: http://wings.buffalo.edu/soc-sci/linguistics/dryer/atlas
	Via: 1.1 cache.www.uk.psi.net (NetCache 4.0R4)
	Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:30:38 GMT
	Age: 55
	X-Cache: MISS from athena.bts.co.uk
	Proxy-Connection: close

Received on Wednesday, 12 January 2000 06:35:12 UTC