[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. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
