On 9/27/06, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've come across a somewhat strange issue with the way weblog urls are treated in Roller 3.0. With the new urls in Roller 3.0 both of these are treated the same ... /weblog /weblog/ ... and both will simply get you the index page for the given weblog. The problem with lies in the fact that some clients will consider both of those urls to be different and therefore it's misleading for them to coexist when they represent the same page. I did a little bit of reading on this topic and found that the general concensus is that when you have a trailing slash issue with a url that you should pick one version or the other as the preferred url and have the alternative(s) simply do redirects to the preferred version. The primary impact of this issue comes with metrics gathering and search indexing because in both cases it can cause unwanted behavior to have 2 urls pointing to the same content. So, it may make some sense go ahead and resolve this issue by choosing which form of the url we would prefer and setting up a redirect for the alternative version. I would suggest this ... /weblog/ (preferred) /weblog -> /weblog/
I'd rather see it the other way around - after all, http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd doesn't redirect to http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd/. Then again, trailing slashes annoy me for some reason. ;-) Matt What do others think? Is this something we should correct before 3.0
goes final? -- Allen
