On 5/2/2009 6:50 PM, Michael Gordon wrote: > Daniel replied On 5/2/2009 7:07 PM > >> DoctorBill wrote: >>> What is the difference between whatever.com vs whatever.com/ when you >>> type them into the Location bar? >>> >>> Is one faster than the other or difference in where it goes...? >>> >>> Just curious. >>> >>> DoctorBill >> DoctorBill, part of your answer may be that when you put whatever.com >> into your location bar, SeaMonkey actually goes looking for a file >> called index.html (which is the file, as I understand it, that sets out >> the layout of the page) at whatever.com, whereas if you entered >> whatever.com/, it would go looking for an index.html at a sub-level of >> the main site. >> >> How about comparing it to putting a letter in the mail box of a >> building/street address (1596 First St), compared to putting it in the >> mail box of a company on a floor of the building (10th Fl, 1596 First St). >> >> Something like that. >> >> Daniel > > Daniel, > > This is a real good explanation of the question about the different > formats for the URL. > > In either case SeaMonkey and other web browsers will look for the > default home page file which can have the following extensions: index > .htm, .html, .shtml. > > In the case without the "/" and on an Apache web server if the > configuration file contains an instruction to not index the directory, > if the index.html file is not found the server will return either a > Forbidden error, or Page Not Found. > > In the case with the "/" the web browser will drill down the list of > directories until it finds an index file, if none is found return a Page > Not Found error. > > How about comparing it to putting a letter in the mail box of a > building/street address (Mr John Adams,1596 First St), compared to > putting it in the > mail box of a company on a floor of the building (Mr John Adams,10th Fl, > Suite 101, 1596 First St). > > Michael >
I just tried a test on my own Web site. I deleted the index.html in the top-level directory. I have 17 subdirectories, each with its own index.html. I selected the URI to my Web site: <http://www.rossde.com/>. I got a list of the contents of my top-level directory. Although not index.html, the list is titled "Index" (as described by Q). The server is a version of Apache. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
