Common Practice vs Standards (was: Re: [thelist] www prefix is it necessary?)

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:52 +1100, Michael Pemberton wrote:
> This raises an interesting issue.  Should the shorthand become the norm?
> 
> I have found the IE starts to remove the trailing '/' on urls that are 
> stored in the histroy ("http://www.sitename.com/" becomes 
> "http://www.sitename.com").  This, along with other people following the 
> same pattern, has resulted in more users making this a habit.

In this instance, and only this instance, there's no difference between
the two URLs. With any path component in the mix, however, they are
different with and without the slash.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>