in the forum [
webmasterworld.com ] Status_203 tells that:
If I attempt to go to www.google.com in my browser then I end up at www.google.com/ . So where is this happening. Using Firefox with the Live HTTP Headers add on shows me making no request for www.google.com but immediately requesting www.google.com/ . So it looks like the browser recognises that www.google.com is not a valid url but realises that in this case what is actually wanted most often is the root path of the domain "/" and so defaults this part of the path just as it defaults the "http://" part.
there hasn't been any discussion on this after that. when i searched the net and [
webmasterworld.com ] forums i didn't find an answer to this.
could you tell how this works in browsers?
the issues are:
1) when i type www.google.com in the address bar, the url automatically gets changed to www.google.com/. in most of the sites it's like the same. www.webmasterworld.com -> www.webmasterworld.com/
the Live HTTP Headers add on of firefox shows that the page requested is www.google.com/
there is no request for www.google.com shown.
does this mean that firefox automatically adds the trailing slash for home pages/root directory and request for the homepage with trailing slash on?
2) how is it with other browsers?
3) is there a tool like "Live HTTP Headers add on in firefox" for other browsers that helps in showing the HTTP header details of the data sent and received?
[PS: it's not the trailing slash problem for directories that is mentioned here, only trailing slash in homepage/root directory]
