[cs631apue] Question about the request

[Jan Schaumann]

ccui1 <ccui1 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> The question is when we give a request like
>
> GET /dir HTTP/1.0 instead of giving the request like GET /dir/ HTTP/1.0.

Try it out against any web server you like.  You should find that a
request for "/dir", where that is an actual directory, yields a 301
return.

A request for "/dir/" is identical to "/dir/.", since "." is just the
name for the directory.

-Jan
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