Re: What's wrong with names that end in /?

> How would Amaya know what your server has set for a default or index
page?

The server knows - the client doesn't. The only thing the client can see
is that "foo/" is different from "foo/bar.html" - it has no idea what the
difference means.

Therefore, the server should do the mapping and it should be ok for the
client to PUT to something ending in "/" (if the rest of the PUT is valid,
accepted etc.)

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
mailto:frystyk@microsoft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "P. T. Rourke\" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
To: <www-amaya@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 16:53
Subject: Re: What's wrong with names that end in /?

> Does
>
> http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/     mean
> http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/index.html   or
> http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/index.htm    or
> http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/default.htm    or
> http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/home.html
>
> etc.  The server doesn't automatically change the directory-based URI to
a
> full file URI on a PUT command.  Right?  I mean, wouldn't the PUT
command
> have to respond with the index.html part of the URI for this to work the
way
> you're suggesting in Amaya?
>
> Is this some kind of a trick question?  DC clearly knows what he's
doing, so
> there's something I'm not picking up in his question.