On 25/01/2018 02:38, bill-auger wrote:
> in the case of the 'www.' sub-domain in 'http://www.foo.com', that
> clearly identifies the HTTP "World Wide Web" server of foo.com
As a somewhat relevant side issue, what are the rules or conventions
regarding URLs with unadorned directory or file components, like
"http://www.foo.com";?
After reading up the other day, my understanding is that since a
trailing slash indicates something like a directory resource depending
on context, "http://www.foo.com"; should canonically be represented as
"http://www.foo.com/";. The web server will resolve this "directory" to
"http://www.foo.com/index.html"; or something similar. Do I understand
correctly?
What are the history and rules regarding this? Is there an RFC or some
other authoritative resource that explains it?
Andrew
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