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beweel
Hi!
There is a problem with Dmoz if you do not use trailing slashes on the categories in your browser.
This is not a problem if you start at www.dmoz.org and surfs on from there. But if you use the links that your browser recognizes that you have been to, it leaves out the slash - this is the case for IE 6.
Here is the problem illustrated:
curl "http://www.dmoz.org/World"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://editors.dmoz.org:8081/World/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
The command takes 58 seconds to complete and the URL which I am redirected to does not work:
curl "http://editors.dmoz.org:8081/World/"
curl: (7) Connect failed
Adding the trailing slash however makes the webserver return the page in only 0.2 sec.
Nico
There is a problem with Dmoz if you do not use trailing slashes on the categories in your browser.
This is not a problem if you start at www.dmoz.org and surfs on from there. But if you use the links that your browser recognizes that you have been to, it leaves out the slash - this is the case for IE 6.
Here is the problem illustrated:
curl "http://www.dmoz.org/World"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://editors.dmoz.org:8081/World/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
The command takes 58 seconds to complete and the URL which I am redirected to does not work:
curl "http://editors.dmoz.org:8081/World/"
curl: (7) Connect failed
Adding the trailing slash however makes the webserver return the page in only 0.2 sec.
Nico