Question

I was developing a web crawler when I noticed this.

URL 1: http://www.techwyse.com/services/

URL 2: http://www.techwyse.com/contact-us.php

URL 1 doesnt have any extension like HTML or aspx.But it displays a page . Is is possible to know the exact name of the page being displayed? (it is not displayed in Browser)

What do we call these kind of URLs like URL2 ?

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

http://www.techwyse.com/services/ refers to a folder on the webserver whereas http://www.techwyse.com/contact-us.php refers to an actual file on the webserver.

When you request a folder 4 things can basically happen:

1. The webserver configured to have ‘default files’ like index.html, default.asp, index.php and one of these is shown.
2. The webserver found no ‘default’ files and folder browsing is enabled and you will actually get to see all the files and subfolders
3. There are no default files and folderbrowsing is disabled and you will see the error message ‘folder browsing is disabled’
4. SEO is used and the webservers internally refers that URL to a specific file.