Trailing slash in URLs

[Peter Murray]

I don't believe this is correct, but not because of the trailing slash.  The
dash is probably what is causing the confusion.  Try:

  telnet://gabi.tsl.state.tx.us:23/

or even

  telnet://gabi.tsl.state.tx.us/

(since port "23" is the default telnet port).


Peter

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Chuck Bearden wrote:

> A quick BTW question:
> 
> Should telnet URLs conclude with a slash (e.g. 
> 
>         telnet://gabi.tsl.state.tx.us:-23/
> 
> MSIE 2.0 doesn't strip the trailing slash when passing the host address to
> the telnet client, and the client can't make sense of the address with the
> trailing slash.  
> 
> Is this a failure of MSIE 2.0 to accomodate proper HTML form, or an
> example of improper HTML form? 
> 
> Chuck
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