[support] Path trailing slash

[Greg at GrowingVentureSolutions.com]

Responses inline below.

On 5/3/08, John Fletcher <net at twoedged.org> wrote:
> The recent discussion about ".html" at the end of paths reminded me... I've
> been wondering about the reason why a trailing slash is not allowed in
> aliases created by the Path module.

There's an issue about it here: http://drupal.org/node/250525

> Sometimes when I land on a page deep in a website, I want to see more of
> what the website is about.  So I go up a few folders manually... eg. I read
>
> www.example.com/articles/internet/whyinternetisgood.html, then I manually
> enter the following into the URL: www.example.com/articles/ in order to see
> the index page containing all the articles.
>

That sounds like "hackable URLs" to me.

> Any thoughts?

Sure, I created a video a while ago that discusses hackable URLs and
then shows how to achieve this using Pathauto and Views:
http://blip.tv/file/817271

Enjoy!
Greg


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