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

Ken Schaefer Ken at adOpenStatic.com
Tue Jan 25 03:36:15 CST 2005


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: Subject: Re: Common Practice vs Standards (was: Re: [thelist] www prefix
: is itnecessary?)
: 
: > 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.
: 
: What sucks is IIS (ver 5) does a redirect to put the trailing slash
: _back_on_. So who knows what...
: 
: Scott

Not just IIS5 - all versions of IIS will do that. But hey, that's the way the
HTTP standard is. Funny how Microsoft sucks because they have poor standards
support (IE), but they also suck when they follow (other) standards :-)

Cheers
Ken


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