Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround

[mattack]

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
>> >  http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/  or
>> >  http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev  as the "right" URL.
...
>> 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.

So
http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/
really means  http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/index.html, right?

And http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev literally looks for the file "lynx-dev"
right?

As much of a UNIX geek as I am, I'm running into this problem lately when
copying file heirarchies around..  Tab-completion, which I'm a relatively new
user of, sometimes puts / on the end..  to annoying results.. because instead
of copying the folder and it's contents, it's then copying the contents
of the folder to the destination folder..