I was talking about what the browser does when you click on a link in a web page. Suppose you have a web page called http://www.example.com/directory/page1.html and it contains this hyperlink: <a href="page2.html">Page 2</a> When you click on that link, the browser has to figure out what "page2.html" refers to. It's relative to the current page, so the browser will request http://www.example.com/directory/page2.html.
Now suppose the page containing that link is "http://www.example.com/directory/";. The trailing "/" means that this is logically a directory so when you click on that link the browser requests http://www.example.com/directory/page2.html (same as before). Now remove the trailing slash, so the web page's URL is "http://www.example.com/directory";. To the browser, this looks like a file called "directory" in the directory "/". So when you click on the Page 2 link you'll get http://www.example.com/page2.html which is wrong. That's why web servers don't treat http://www.example.com/directory/ and http://www.example.com/directory as the same thing - if they did, relative links would sometimes fail, depending how you typed the URL into the browser. Instead, as a convenience for those of us who are too lazy to type the trailing "/", the web server will make sure the URL ends with a "/" by sending a redirect response to force the browser to fetch the correct URL. -- Len On 1/15/07, lightbulb432 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could anyone please expand a little more on what's meant by the two statements below? Len Popp wrote: > > It doesn't matter if it's done by URLRewriteFilter or some other > method because it's the browser that interprets the relative URLs, not > the server. > > If the containing page's URL looks like a file when it's > really a directory, the browser will get them wrong. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trailing-slash-added-tf2970832.html#a8378938 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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