[wp-testers] Uploading Location and Trailing slash

Gregory Wild-Smith greg at twilightuniverse.com
Mon Dec 19 02:41:48 GMT 2005


 From the point of view of being good practice they should at least.
The server has to do less work to find the requested resource with a 
trailing slash (usually anyhow).

Not sure if its a rule as such, but the W3C probably recommends it.

-- Greg

Rick Beckman wrote:
> Aren't proper URLs meant to have a trailing slash? I'm not saying 
> you're wrong in your request, but this is what I remember reading 
> somewhere on the W3C website, though "to each his own." :-)
>
> --
> Rick
>
> On 12/18/05, *Sean Hayford O'Leary* <hayfordoleary at gmail.com 
> <mailto:hayfordoleary at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Two completely unrelated things:
>     First - In an older e-mail from the list, there was a method in
>     wp-settings.php to easily change the upload path. Maybe I'm crazy, but
>     has this code changed since the upload path option was taken out of
>     the admin? Also, how do you specify what types of files can be
>     uploaded?
>
>     Second - Is there an efficient way to eliminate trailing slashes in
>     2.0? Naturally, you can get rid of them for the posts themselves in
>     the permalink options, but for categories and archives, they still
>     show up by default (I'm not sure if this should be counted as a
>     "feature" or a "bug," but it seems that if you don't have a trailing
>     slash specified in the permalink options, it should be disabled
>     site-wide).
>
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