Quoting John Fletcher net@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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