[PLUG] Googling for Linux WAS: Scanned text...

[Sandy Herring]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Rich Shepard wrote: 
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Paul Mullen wrote:
> 
> > D'oh. Gotta remove the trailing slash from the URL, it appears. Try
> > <http://www.google.com/linux>.
> 
>   That's interesting, Paul. I read recently (but I don't recall just where)
> that the final slash is required. If we don't put it in, the browser is
> supposed to do it for us. There's a reason for having it there, but that is
> in the same region of lost memory as the source of the article.
> 
> Rich

Non-canonical URLs cause a redirect to create a canonical URL (one that can
serve as a base for future requests). This is an unnecessary load on the
server. That's why http://foo.com/bar/ is preferred over http://foo.com/bar
- just what Google is doing is a puzzle. For more info, see...

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Sandy
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