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If the UA encounters a 404 it could offer to strip the ".", perhaps.
by kohtatsu 6y ago
If the UA encounters a 404 it could offer to strip the ".", perhaps.
- henvic 6y agoAdding this could add unintended consequences. This is not an easy to solve issue. In reality, this is something that a clear RFC should deal with (or does and I don't know).
- bmn__ 6y agoNo, the server should offer it because the UA is clueless about the URI space. Apache httpd comes with mod_speling. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_speling.html https://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_speling.html
- gus_massa 6y agoThe problem is that it is difficult to know how many symbols it must fix. It can be also a comma, colons, semicolons, and parenthesis, and ... In HN I always put an space before and after each URL just in case because I never remember what the parser does with something like (http://www.google.com http://www.google.com).