💾 Archived View for rawtext.club › ~sloum › geminilist › 002000.gmi captured on 2020-09-24 at 01:30:09. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Mon Jun 29 12:08:39 BST 2020
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 08:20:40AM +0000, Krixano wrote:
Ok, so I have a legitimate question... why are servers even redirecting for something as dumb as a trailing slash anyways?
It might *seem* dumb, but it's essential for relative URLs to workcorrectly. Links in text/gemini may be relative URLs, e.g. just"other_page.gmi". It's the client's job to turn that into an absoluteURL, in accordance with the RFC rules for doing so. If you are at"gemini://example.com/foo", then that relative link turns into"gemini://example.com/other_page.gmi", but if you are at"gemini://example.com/foo/" then it turns into"gemini://example.com/foo/other_page.gmi". Web servers do this all thetime for exactly the same reason, you just never notice because browsersnever tell you.
Cheers,Solderpunk