Re: I know it's been asked before...

Thomas A Fine (fine@cis.ohio-state.edu)
Tue, 16 Aug 1994 14:12:45 -0400

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>Re: (and I wish that WWW systems were smart enough to avoid the need for
>that final /top.html; gopher systems can automatically look for an index
>in the final directory, and serve you with a hypertext version of that,
>so why not WWW?)
>
>
>Actually, WWW does. It's just that top.html is not the default name for
>which it is looking. One could configure one's server to look for that
>name - Ohio State has not yet decided to do that. Perhaps you could drop
>them a note and suggest it?

Done. You can never have too many symlinks, I always say. I hope I don't
regret this. Here's the problem (bail now, if you aren't interested).
If you request a directory from our server (NCSA httpd 1.3) but forget
the trailing slash, it causes a redirect, back to the same server, for the
same URL, with a trailing slash. This is a dumb implementation, true.
I don't know why they did it that way. But it has the effect of doubling
the accesses (and increasing the load uselessly). So if lots of people
actually use this, and don't add in the trailing slash, I may reconfigure
things to not allow it.

tom

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