I hold it as some sort of sin to mangle the user's submitted data. So
we will not irrecoverably change your url if at all possible (modulo
the dangerous# thing.)
I think what people are actually talking about are a) if you
bookmarked www.xyz.com/index.html and if you try to submit xyz.com/
some other time, it should somehow catch that and b) correctly
showing the "and n other people" stuff. I believe the second can be
accomplished easily enough, but a) is quite dangerous.
In general the transformations are:
1) remove leading www. from host
2) remove trailing #fragment
3) remove trailing index.(html|shtml|php)
I plan to add something like this, but it will not go in until it is
properly thought through.
Joshua
On Aug 26, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Andrew Ducker wrote:
Brian Lalor wrote:
On Aug 26, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
I would like to point out that changing it to 'www' instead of
removing the 'www' would be the more logical choice... however
this has been discussed before and it was decided that since, in
theory, with and without the 'www' do not necessarily point to
the same thing (i.e., there is nothing at teamchad.org, you must
use www.teamchad.org) it would not make sense to add it to the
system
Perhaps it would make sense to do this only for URLs with path
components and not just hostnames?
ie. http://bravo5.org/foo/bar/baz and http://www.bravo5.org/foo/
bar/baz
Except that, for instance, http://andrew.notzen.com/wiki/ is the
same as http://www.notzen.com/andrew/wiki/ - how would you conflate
those?
I think that _any_ kind of consolidation is going to hit cases
where it does the wrong thing, and therefore it shouldn't be done
at all in an automatic function.
On the other hand, if there was a way of matching two URLs together
manually, that might be nice.
Andy D
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