tedster - 1:08 am on Jun 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

Technically those are two different urls and they could show different content - for instance, I know of sites where the directory root is default.asp, but there's also an index.html file in that directory. The index.html situation used to be a source of PR "splitting" but more recently it seems to me that Google has is sorted out for sites that show this kind of ambiguity.

Still, I feel it's a best practice only to use the directory root in all your links, and where your technology permits it, 301 redirect index.html requests to the directory root.

[edited by: tedster at 8:11 pm (utc) on June 11, 2008]