| -----Original Message----- | From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | IIUC, when an http: URL ends in a slash, or when it names a directory | even without a slash, the server retrieves the default page (if any) | in the directory in question; and it is up to the server to determine | what this default page shall be. On user sites of my ISP, the default | page is one of index.htm, INDEX.HTM, index.html or INDEX.HTML, | whichever is present, or if none is, a server page saying "The page | you are trying to access is not present on this server" with the ISP | logo and blue-and-white color scheme; but I've seen other sites where | the default page is named index.php, default.html, ... You never get a | directory listing unless the default page itself includes a directory | listing (e.g., at http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.0/ you get the | contents of the README file _plus_ a directory listing in HTML).
Yep. It is all up to the server, the http protocol doesn't really recognize concepts such as directories or files, it is URLs. A trailing slash could return a 30x redirect to a file (such as index|default.xxx) or return a html web-page. That page, might look like a directory listing, as that ftp.vim.org example - but the client or the protocol doesn't recognize it as anything other than a normal http request... /Hugo
