# Re: Treatment of trailing slash after directory name

Peter Svanberg (psv@nada.kth.se)
Fri, 01 Jul 1994 10:18:15 +0200

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    To: yandros@mit.edu

    Subject: Re: Treatment of trailing slash after directory name

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    Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 10:18:15 +0200

    From: Peter Svanberg <psv@nada.kth.se>

Quoting yandros@MIT.EDU
>
> I believe that Dan Connolly was talking about my impressions, not
> yours. Under the WWW worldview, you'd neither know nor care that "c"
> is a directory; if you want to indicate a logical directory you put in
> the trailing slash. Under the `pure IETF URI' worldview, you don't
> even know that there's a "c" there.

So Mosaic - the program that *is* WWW - is wrong in this
aspect. I wonder which is stronger, the program or the
worldview...

(The reason I brought this up was that I was spreading
information on which URL our users should give out to their own
WWW information. "http://<domain>/~<username>" must be appended
with a slash, a colleague said, and I thought "Users will
forget the slash, and they shouldn't have to care about such
details when the computer can do it for them!".)

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    Peter Svanberg, Nada, KTH

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