[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

[Mark Lowes]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:46, Tethys wrote:
> 	http://www.google.com/news/
> 	http://www.google.com/news
> 
> This is because the browser will just do a "GET /" for the main site,
> whether it has the trailing / or not. But for a subdirectory it'll ask
> for exactly what you specified in the URL. What I don't understand is
> why Apache returns a 301 when you omit the trailing slash, rather than
> just Doing The Right Thing. It hasn't moved permanently -- it was never

Which IMHO would be a 404.

If you can't be bothered to type in the url correctly why should you
expect the server to help you out?

Maybe I should invest sometime in getting my homepage to do the right
thing >:)

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