On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:17:28 +0100, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 01:30, Brion Vibber wrote:
But we cannot and will not have canonical or standard URLs like this, ever:
http://en.wiktionary.org/robots.txt <- is this a dictionary entry or the robots exclusion file??
if the file exists => file, otherwise entry.
Just to clarify why this doesn't solve the problem - if you have an exception to the short way, you have to teach people the long way. Hence, the short URL form is not standard and canonical, because it won't always work. Hence, you have to mainly use the long, canonical, form. And hence, you have a visible redirect like Brion has now implemented.