lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround

[Philip Webb]

990424 Klaus Weide wrote:
> 990424 Philip Webb wrote:
>> my understanding is that the final  /  is needed only after the 1st part,
>> not after subsequent (sub)directory names,
> It's more or less the other way 'round.  Most of the time.
> It's up to Flora whether they regard
>  http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/  or
>  http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev  as the "right" URL.
> But with most servers the first would normally be the right URL.
> The second then only may work via a redirection.

so why does Lynx add the  /  in the first case,
but leave it to the server in the second case ... ?

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