Re: WHICH HTML-CODE is better to use?

At 04:37 PM 4/10/97 +0200, Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet graced us with:
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» In article <334cdeb8.350903@news.xs4all.nl>,
» jult@xs4all.DEL.ME.nl wrote:
» > I have a question probably many of us like to have answered:
» > Which one of these versions of the same html-code works fastest
» > and WHY? ( I'm a perfectionist, so I'd really like to know, even if
» > it's only about nano-sec's loading time! )
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» > <A HREF="http://www.charliesangels.com/">CharliesAngels.com</A>
» > <A HREF="http://www.charliesangels.com">CharliesAngels.com</A>

Something worth considering, and more to the point of the original
poster's question, is an URL like this:

<a href="http://www.charliesangels.com/directory">Charlie's directory</a>

If /directory contains a default file, such as "index.html", most
servers will send back a 302 with the appropriate URL:

Location: http://www.charliesangels.com/directory/index.html

<a href="http://www.charliesangels.com/directory/">Charlie's directory</a>

The markup above will actually retrieve the file itself, instead of
generating a 302. All because of a trailing slash.

The above is true for Apache, and I would guess for NCSA httpd as well.
Anyone want to confirm it for me?

Steve


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Received on Thursday, 10 April 1997 10:59:10 UTC