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I'm not sure if you mean person or software when you say 'client'? If a software client did that it would be misbehaving AFAIK. A Web browser isn't allowed to add an arbitrary slash onto the end of a URL in the way you suggest. A human might choose to do so - I don't quite see why they would, but I guess they might. If you felt this was likely to be a problem you could configure your server to handle http://www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar.php http://www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar and http://www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar/ in the same way ?? Again, on the Eduserv site, all of the following result in the same resource being served: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/news.html http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/news http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/news/ Note that this has side-effects on the way relative URLs work - so it can take you by surprise occassionally! It is also somewhat questionable practice in the sense that the W3C recommend that you only assign one URI to each resource. Encouraging the use of multiple URIs for the same resource has a potential negative impact on Google-juice. At Eduserv, my personal preference would be to pick one of the second two URI forms here and stick to it (and only it)! Andy -- Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/ http://efoundations.typepad.com/ [log in to unmask] +44 (0)1225 474319 > -----Original Message----- > From: Managing an institutional web site > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of McConnell, Mike > Sent: 26 July 2007 16:48 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Value of file extensions in URLs > > > Probably revealing my lack of technical expertise here, but > if you have an address > > www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar.php <file://www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar.php> > > and refer to it as > > www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar <file://www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar> > > and the client then assums this is a directory and choses to enter > > www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar/ <file://www.aber.ac.uk/foo/bar/> > > in his/address bar, won't that create a problem? > > Mike > > ----------------- > Mike McConnell > Web Team > University of Aberdeen > > [log in to unmask] > http://www.abdn.ac.uk/web/ <http://www.abdn.ac.uk/web/> > > Directorate of Information Technology > Edward Wright Building > Dunbar Street > Aberdeen > AB24 3QY > Tel: +44 (0)1224 27 2602 > Fax: +44 (0)1224 27 3372 > ------------------------------------------ > >