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I am partially through implementing the functionality of SimpleHTTPServer.py in Scheme. I am having some good fun with HTTP request/response mechanism. While going through the above file, I came across this- ” # redirect browser – doing basically what apache does” in the code”.
Why is this redirection necessary in such a scenario?
Imagine you serve a page
that contains
On click, the user’s browser would retrieve
http://mydomain.com/more.html. Had you instead served(with the same content), the browser would retrieve
http://mydomain.com/bla/more.html. To avoid this ambiguity, the redirection appends a slash if the URL points to a directory.