[rescue] Re: geek vehicles (HTTP requests)

[Ken Hansen]

the final /  indicates to Apache (and others?) that you are attempting to
open a directory, not a file, and the server will look for a default page
(typ. something like index.html) to display. Without the trailing slash, the
request is assumed to be for a file, and the process works correctly.

What the HTTP standard says, I am not sue, nor can I speak to the operation
of other HTTP servers...

HTH,

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at arkham.ws>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: geek vehicles


> On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 03:03:58AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> >
> > Well, that is bloody odd.  I use it without the final / and it complains
> > about not finding zaphod, but with / it works fine.  Using mozilla 0.9.2
> > BTW.
>
> ok.  i used Netscape, IE5 and Opera (all on solaris tee hee) and have
never run
> into this problem.  any ideas folks?
>
> -brian
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