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Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround


From: Klaus Weide
Subject: Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:43:44 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
> 990424 Klaus Weide wrote:
> > 990424 Philip Webb wrote:
> >> my understanding is that the final  /  is needed only after the 1st part,
> >> not after subsequent (sub)directory names,
> > It's more or less the other way 'round.  Most of the time.
> > It's up to Flora whether they regard
> >  http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/  or
> >  http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev  as the "right" URL.
> > But with most servers the first would normally be the right URL.
> > The second then only may work via a redirection.
> 
> so why does Lynx add the  /  in the first case,
> but leave it to the server in the second case ... ?

Because they are different URLs.  They could as well have different
content, if the server chooses so.  As FLORA has now demonstrated.

         Klaus


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