>> Why are >> >> http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/deso03 (1) >> http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/deso03/ (2) >> >> two different addresses for wwwoffle ?
AB> Because they are two different URLs. They may or may not have the AB> same information in them, there is no way to know without getting both AB> of them. In the usual case (filesystem-based web servers), they do contain different information indeed. Resource (2) typically contains an HTML document, while (1) is merely a 301 redirect to (2). There is a good reason for that. Suppose the server returned an HTML document for (1), and that the document contained <a href="toto.html">. Then a click on the above anchor might yield http://plone.ffii.org/events/deso03toto.html which is clearly not what you want. A corollary of the above: while it would be tempting to have WWWOFFLE and polipo rewrite (1) into (2) in order to avoid an extra round-trip to the server, doing that would break all relative links and hence must not be done. Juliusz
