--- Forwarded Message from Language Laboratories and Archives <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:21:06 -0500 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Language Laboratories and Archives <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #6783 OS X Server: making a final slash automatic in resolving URLs ------------------ >--- Forwarded Message from David Kanig <[log in to unmask]> --- > >We're running a Mac OS X Server 10.1 on which web service has been >configured to automatically append "index.html" to the end of any URL >request which comes in without a file name at the end. While this >works as expected for addresses which end in a slash, it is not >working for URLs which don't end in a slash. For example: > > http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH/ correctly resolves to: > http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH/index.html . However, > > http://www.language.brown.edu/CZH only yields error messages: > "Netscape is unable to locate the server LangLabServer 16080" > and similarly, IE reports: "The specified server could not be found." > >Can anyone suggest what the problem might be? Computers are really dumb. Perhaps what the second resolves to is http://www.language.brown.edu/CZHindex.html, which would not be a good address. Can the program that appends index.html be set to evaluate the expression to look for a final slash, and to append one if it is missing? Barbara Need Manager (SS4) UChicago Language Labs & Archives --