[wp-testers] Uploading Location and Trailing slash

[Aaron Bird]

Yes he is very anti-"www." he hates the "www" do not put it in your links.

On 12/18/05, Sean Hayford O'Leary <hayfordoleary at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm very anti-"www." too (in spite of my previous www. linkage in this
> thread, all of the sites I manage are set to remove www.  from their
> addresses. Once again, just would have been nice to be able to turn it
> off, certainly not going to prevent me from using WordPress.
>
> What does strike me with a great deal more anger at WP is the
> difficulty in customising the upload path. Could someone please tell
> me how I can do this now? (Hate to drag up old arguments, but I would
> point out that people like consistency, and they hardly want to go
> back and change all of their old image URIs. I'm pro-YYYY/MM, though.
> Still think it was dorky to remove option from admin ui [especially
> when we have a colour customiser]).
>
> Happy to argue the point, but, again, much more urgently, I want to
> know how to customise it (I've been having to make thumbnails in
> Photoshop then FTP). Oh, speaking of which, can the size of default
> thumbnail be changed?
>
> On 12/18/05, Roy Schestowitz <wp-lowtraffic at schestowitz.com> wrote:
> > _____/ On Mon 19 Dec 2005 02:54:17 GMT, [Sean Hayford O'Leary] wrote :
> \_____
> >
> > >> 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).
> > >> >
> > >> >     --
> > >> >     Sean Hayford O'Leary
> > >> >
> > > On 12/18/05, Gregory Wild-Smith <greg at twilightuniverse.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >
> > > The trailing slash isn't a big deal -- but anyone know about the
> uploading?
> > >
> > > (My argument against trailing slash is that it techincally indicates a
> > > directory, not a single web-page. (Even the W3C themselves do not
> always use
> > > trailing slash: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/good-titles)
> >
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.txt
> >
> > Have a look at Section 8:
> >
> > <snippet>
> >
> > Note: Trailing slashes
> >
> >    If a path of the context locator ends in slash, partial URIs are
> >    treated differently to the URI with the same path but without a
> >    trailing slash. The trailing slash indicates a void segment of the
> >    path.
> >
> > </snippet>
> >
> > The point made by Berners-Lee is that syntax pertaining to structure
> need be
> > avoided. For example, ".." might have a special meaning. What about
> spaces
> > ("%20") for example? They lead to a command-line ambiguity (spaces have
> a
> > special meaning, also in the context of namespace). They were embraced
> by
> > Windows in particular. I'm in favour of no trailing slash, but either
> > way, they
> > don't lead to PageRank leakage, unlike, for instance, the www umbilical
> cord.
> > It's not crucial and permanent link will not be broken either way.
> >
> > Roy
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > wp-testers mailing list
> > wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
> > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
> >
>
>
> --
> Sean Hayford O'Leary
>
> Help spread the joy of the holiday season -- donate to Oxfam
> [http://oxfamamerica.org]. Also see my new collective opinion site --
> Alphaspeak [http://alphaspeak.org].
>
> _______________________________________________
> wp-testers mailing list
> wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
>
>
>


--
Aaron Bird
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/attachments/20051219/78484e44/attachment-0001.htm