On Tuesday 15 January 2002 14:36 pm, Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor) wrote:
> > How? Please explain. The slashless version should be
> > preferred in case of some misconfigured http servers, IMO.
>
> I _assume_ a properly configured http server. ;)

Still you haven't explained how typing
http://gcc.gnu.org or http://gcc.gnu.org/ into the browser
window makes a difference in network traffic. I tried with
lynx and in both cases the request that went was (I have removed the
Accept: headers, since they were too long)

GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: gcc.gnu.org
Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6b


If you give a path after the site name (www.somesite.com/somedir, for example)
then with some webservers the slash might matter if somedir is a directory. 
This might generate a HTTP 30x server response, but I don't think the excess 
traffic is of any consequence.

Binand

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