[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package: remove the trailing slash sign from the URL address

Michael Rommel rommel at layer-7.net
Wed Sep 18 17:56:21 UTC 2013


Hi Jerzy,


On Sep 18, 2013, at 17:44 , Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek at trzebnica.net> wrote:
>> Could you clarify why this is desirable? Note that urls with our without trailing slash are not identical: the web server needs to properly support this. For example, the autobuild website does not properly do it (something very annoying ;) )
>> 
> 
> The only reason is - for BR consistency.
> 

actually I would not recommend to implement that. The RFC 3986 states in chapter 6.2.3: "In general, a URI that uses the generic syntax for authority with an empty path should be normalised to a path of "/".

It is common practise to redirect from the URL without trailing slash to one with a trailing slash. So in essence, in most times when the user selects a url without a trailing slash, an unnecessary  round trip to the web server occurs.

  Michael.

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Michael Rommel, Erlangen, Germany

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