Re: [Zope-dev] ZServer should redirect for folder objects?

John Lim writes:

I've been doing some work with Zope and I've noticed strange behavior with regards to ZServer and relative links.

When a client requests an object that is a folder and the request URL does not have a trailing slash, the HTTP server should return an HTTP 301 Redirect to the correct URL with the slash, right? Hmm?

Apache may do this, but I did not see a clause in the HTTP spec that would require this behaviour. Zope does not do it, but sets a "base" tag. This is another approach, good for Zope but difficult for Apache... Usually, this allows to correctly resolve relative links. But the magic only works, if your "index_html" has a "head" tag. Dieter