[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>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.

Hmm, I suppose that's correct.  I hadn't thought about that distinction.
However I don't see why you need to be so nasty about it.

>> > -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.

Yes.

--Bill.

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