RE: deleting slash at the and of an URL

You're right, the s-less form gets a 301 Moved Permanently response. I didn't
think about this possibility. But the problem remains that when I enter the
URL with the final slash and then realize (after the URL has been loaded)
that it's wrong and delete the slash and press return, Amaya doesn't do anything.

Karl-Michael

> > 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 07:49:02 UTC