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Kevin Chu (kevin@portal.ca)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:43:24 -0700
Randall Clark wrote:
> http://www.domainname.com/~username/
>
> What gives?? is their a way to fix this ??
As mentioned by others, you need the trailing slash to properly form a
URL, since you're specifying a directory. If the last part is a
filename, you obviously wouldn't need the trailing slash, i.e.
.../~username/chapter2.html. Without the filename and with the
trailing slash, the server is supposed to give you the default file
for a directory, normally index.html but can be whatever else is
configured.
As to fixing it, I think you'd be breaking it if you made it take URLs
without the trailing slash. :) If you tell people the URL with the
slash, and then they try to reach you without it....
Kevin
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