Re: Treatment of trailing slash after directory name

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Tue, 28 Jun 1994 15:53:57 PDT

To: yandros@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: yandros@mit.edu's message of Tue, 28 Jun 1994 15:36:31 -0700 <94Jun28.153640pdt.2763@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: Treatment of trailing slash after directory name
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Message-Id: <94Jun28.155358pdt.2760@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 15:53:57 PDT

The short answer is:

> The current RFC drafts do not mention 'partial' URLs at all.

I am working on a new draft of the URL document; I sent a nearly
completed copy to Ned Freed, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark McCahill and Alan
Emtage for preliminary comments on Sunday. I am still hoping for some
input from Mark, but if I don't hear from him soon, I will tackle the
gopher section anyway and get the thing out.