[ale] Thanks for libcurl and a question about it.

[stephen at bee.net (Stephen Cristol)]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Hm.  That worked, but I thought the "standard" called for a trailing
> slash for urls.

Trailing slashes are good (but not required) when referring to a  
directory. While this looks like a directory because it lacks an  
extension, there is no way to know for sure. It could simply be a  
file or apache (or its brethren) could be mapping the URL to  
something not meant for your eyes. It would certainly be nice if such  
mappings were agnostic to the trailing slash, but that just isn't  
current practice. Compare:

   http://www.google.com/linux
   http://www.google.com/linux/

S