[10969] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL specification: referring to the current directory.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Phillips)
Tue Sep 9 14:08:17 1997
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 10:58:04 -0700
From: George Phillips <phillips@opentext.com>
To: Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet wrote:
> Webcrawlers most definitely DO NOT assume a filename if a link leads
> to a 'directory' URL. If the URL is "/foo/bar/" then the client *must*
> ask for "/foo/bar" and see what it gets back. It doesn't matter at all
> if the server sends the content of
> "/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/foo/bar/index.html" or any other file in
> that directory, or makes up something out of thin air.
Seems to be a rather critical typo here. What you must have meant
was that if the URL is "/foo/bar/" then the client *must* ask for
"/foo/bar/" and see what it gets back. Sorry to pick, but that
missing slash is really important.
-- George
