On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:29:31PM -0700, William R Ward wrote: > > > > If you are using MacOS, the same concerns apply. MacPerl > > (for Classic environments) comes with a simple editor. > > -Popular external editors are BBEdit ( http://www.bbedit.com/ ) > > +Popular external editors are BBEdit ( http://www.bbedit.com ) > > or Alpha ( http://alpha.olm.net/ ). MacOS X users can use Unix > > editors as well. > > The / at the end of bbedit.com was unnecessarily deleted (without it, > an extra HTTP request is required).
Bull. What do you expect an HTTP client to do when makes a request to http://www.bbedit.com? Ask for nothing? ;-) Please study the relevant RFCs. The '/' is a separator. http://www.bbedit.com is a URL with a host part, and an empty path. http://www.bbedit.com/ is a URL with a host part, and a separator separating the host part from the path. Which is empty. > > -with an embedded Perl interpreter--see http://www.cpan.org/src/misc/ > > +with an embedded Perl interpreter--see http://www.cpan.org/src/misc . > > I would add the / back, but keep the . Now, *here* the trailing '/' is a relevant part of the URL. Abigail
