[support] Trailing slash in path aliases [WAS: Path trailing slash]

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting John Fletcher <net at twoedged.org>:

> Hi,
>

Hi, I've changed the subject to match the question.

> 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.
>

Because you don't want to end up with a URL like foo//bar.  Follow the 
rules and your won't have an issue.

>
>
> 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.
>

This has nothing to do with the path aliases.

>
>
> This reflects the basic function of HTML/HTTP.  Obviously Drupal doesn't
> work like that, under Drupal you would probably need to go to
> www.example.com/articles.  I wouldn't mind being able to mimic the
> traditional functionality for users like myself that do "manual navigation".
>

Drupal is a CMS that displays data in HTML format.  Drupal itself 
doesn't do the URL translations for the HTML request, that is the job 
of your server like Apache.

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