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moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aren’t trailing slashes completely useless?

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  • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trailing slashes actually serve an important purpose in URLs - they indicate you’re requesting a directory rather than a file, which affects how servers route reqeusts and can impact caching, redirects, and SEO.

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  • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, not at all.

    They are a shorthand for “give me the index of this directory” rather than “give me the first file you find named this.” In some configurations, the presence of absence of a trailing slash dramatically reduces the amount of computation an HTTP server must execute before responding to the request.

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    • moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unpkg.com shows different results based on trailing /

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• moseschrute@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It get's even weirder. I'm now writing this from PieFed. If you view this comment from PieFed it won't have the trailing slash, but from Lemmy it will.
  https://piefed.social

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Very interesting I wonder what happens if I post both trailing and non-trailing options, do they both get canonized into the same format?

    piefed.ca – has a trailing slash piefed.ca – does not

    Thank you for having me along on this journey. I don’t really know where it’s leading, but maybe it’s about the weird software behaviors we discover on the way.

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    • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And posting from piefed, is the result the same?

      https://piefed.ca/ -- has a trailing slash
      https://piefed.ca -- does not

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      • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yup, they all have trailing slashes when viewed on Lemmy, and 3/4 have trailing slashes when viewed on piefed. So only piefed actually respects what was originally typed. Lemmy adds a trailing slash when you’re adding the comment, and also adds a trailing slash when reading a comment posted that doesn’t originally have a trailing slash. Intriguing (and slightly annoying).

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