URLs [OT]
Mauriat
mirandam at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 01:43:30 UTC 2009
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Petrus de Calguarium
<kwhiskerz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wondering:
>
> usually a URL has the form
> http://www.company.com/dir/subdir...
>
> but lately, I have often come across
> http://www.company.com//dir/subdir
>
> What does this '//' mean?
The same thing as '/'. I would guess it is an error in whoever coded
the particular URL. I guess since most servers default to unix
behaviour the '/' will work the same as '//'.
See for yourself:
http://fedoraproject.org///index.html
[mirandam at phoebe ~]$ ls ///etc///////X11///////
applnk xdm xorg.conf
fontpath.d xinit xorg.conf.livna-config-backup
prefdm Xmodmap Xresources
-Mauriat
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