Not sure about php.net specifically, but two things to note here: If you leave off a filename at the end of the URL, the web server will look for a 'default' document. On apache and unix systems I believe the default is "index.html" and on IIS systems it's something like "Default.htm". Most of the time there are other options like you might add a "index.php" if your site uses PHP.
The other thing that could happen is they could be using something like the Apache mod_rewrite (some info at http://www.modrewrite.com/ among others) which can dynamically change the requested URL to a more standard URL before sending back to the user. Something like this: http://www.testserver.com/tgryffyn/homepage/middlesection Could be turned into something like: http://www.testserver.com/userpage.php?user=tgryffyn&page=home#middleanchor But to the user requesting the page, it'll always look like the first URL. Forgive me if I got any syntax or capability of mod_rewrite wrong, never used it myself just know that's the general sort of thing that it does. You might be getting a 404 on using ../manual because they're using mod_rewrite and it didn't know how to deal with "../manual" because "manual" isn't part of a path but actually part of the rewrite rules. and the "../" part of it didn't fit into those rules or got translated to a non-existant page This: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php/manual/ Might become something like (ignoring everythin after the function reference): http://www.php.net/manual.php?l=en&function=checkdnsrr I'm not sure why you'd get a 404 by changing the second 'manual' to '../manual' but could have something to do with rewrite rules or something. Just some thoughts. -TG = = = Original message = = = Hi, could anyone tell me why the following url doesn't generate a "page not found" ? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php/manual/ you can try with a longer url after the last .php. I tried with ../manual instead of manual and this produces a 404. I checked with www.php.net because my own site does the same and I wanted to be sure it didn't come from my config. thanks Nicolas Figaro ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
