[rescue] Re: geek vehicles (HTTP requests)

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 12:54:54PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 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.

hmmmmm.

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

so anyone know what the "proper" solution is?  should i just rewite all my
pages to use a trailing / and only give out URLs with a trailing / or can i
get apache to handle both?

thanks,

-brian