Trailing slash in URLs

[Chuck Bearden]

My example was probably not the best because of the funny port number.  
When I contacted TSL some months back about the -23 port number, they said 
it was intentional.  I forget why they used it.

In any case, that isn't the problem I was having (and it may no longer be a 
problem with MSIE 3.0).  In MSIE 2.0, a trailing slash in a telnet URL even 
without any port number is passed to the telnet client.  Both EWAN and the 
telnet client that come with Win95 can't handle the trailing slash, so they 
don't connect.  

Other telnet clients can probably handle this.  I'm probably just 
suffering the consequences of trying to get away with using only free 
software.

Chuck

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--- On Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:27:07 -0700  Peter Murray <pem at po.CWRU.Edu> wrote:

>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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>> Chuck Bearden                   email: cbearden at hpl.lib.tx.us
>> Catalog Department              voice: 713/247-3499
>> Houston Public Library          fax:   713/247-3158
>> 500 McKinney Ave.
>> Houston, TX  77002              -=> NOT SPEAKING FOR HPL <=- 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>       -=>HPL's Homepage: http://sparc.hpl.lib.tx.us<=-
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>
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