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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.example.com/articles/internet/whyinternetisgood.html">www.example.com/articles/internet/whyinternetisgood.html</a>,
then I manually enter the following into the URL: <a
href="http://www.example.com/articles/">www.example.com/articles/</a> in order
to see the index page containing all the articles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This reflects the basic function of HTML/HTTP. Obviously
Drupal doesn’t work like that, under Drupal you would probably need to go
to <a href="http://www.example.com/articles">www.example.com/articles</a>.
I wouldn’t mind being able to mimic the traditional functionality for
users like myself that do “manual navigation”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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