On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 00:09, Brian Moon <br...@moonspot.net> wrote:
> On 8/3/10 4:49 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 22:57, J. Adams<zardozro...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> The link is here, repeatedly:
>>> http://www.php.net/svn-php.php
>>
>> Not its not. That links to http://php.net/dochowto which redirects to
>> http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/ - with the slash.
>> So, how exactly did you end up on the page without the slash?
>>
>
> Because he is a user and users break things. There is nothing wrong with
> being a user. If the page is not valid without a / it should either not
> answer or should redirect. Having it answer with a page full of broken links
> is pretty poor usability. Not sure what web server that is, but if that is a
> directory, the web server vendor should take a hint from Apache redirect
> that request. If it is an application based URL handler, it should do the
> same IMO.
>

Ofcourse it should be fixed, but the authors of that website have
vanished and last time we tried to fix it we broke random other stuff
:]
Old and fragile code :)

-Hannes

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