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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU> on 1995/04/08 06:13:16 UTC

Re: sloppy URLs

> Rob H. asks...
> 
>   How do other servers react to missing trailing slashes ?
> 
> I just checked --- the CERN server sends redirects, as does NetSite.
> It seems to be fairly standard and accepted behavior.
> 
> rst

Yep, and I also agree that it should be the default behavior, with
the rejection behavior available via a config directive.

For HTTP/1.1, this can be replaced with the actual index document and
slashful BASE header when the server is talking to an HTTP/1.1 client.
Any year soon. ;-)

......Roy