Re: HTTP headers on 'trailing slash' redirects?

2002-08-13 Thread Roy T. Fielding
>> Seems to me that a URL pointing to a directory always has to end with a >> slash, and therefor it is permanent. Why would it be temporary? > > Hmm... I'm not entirely sure, to be honest. I wouldn't really > consider myself experienced in any way with the inner workings of web > servers. > Howev

Re: HTTP headers on 'trailing slash' redirects?

2002-08-12 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Phil Stoneman wrote: > > It does strike me that the object could concievably change between > being a directory and being a file, for example, meaning that a cached > redirect (Which is what seems to happen with a permanent redirect) is > an annoyance. Doing that will completely obviate being ab

Re: HTTP headers on 'trailing slash' redirects?

2002-08-12 Thread Phil Stoneman
Monday, August 12, 2002, 9:09:01 AM, you wrote: > Phil Stoneman says: >> >> Now, my problem is this: Apache(1.3.26) is sending 301 >> (HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY) when it does the 'trailing slash' redirects >> to contruct a valid URI for a directory. This is technically not >> against the RFC from w

Re: HTTP headers on 'trailing slash' redirects?

2002-08-12 Thread Jerry Baker
Phil Stoneman says: > > Now, my problem is this: Apache(1.3.26) is sending 301 > (HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY) when it does the 'trailing slash' redirects > to contruct a valid URI for a directory. This is technically not > against the RFC from what I can see. It is a bit annoying, though, > since whe

HTTP headers on 'trailing slash' redirects?

2002-08-11 Thread Phil Stoneman
First of all, I'll apologise for posting this here if there's a better place, or it's answered elsewhere. I've looked as hard as I can for an answer (on the apache site, all throughout google and google groups, and so on), but can't find anything anywhere. Now, my problem is this: Apache(1.3.26)