On my laptop, my Home Page is…
local.debbie
If I type this…
local.debbie/
…the URL changes back to…
local.debbie
But if I type in this…
local.debbie//
…then the URL remains as…
local.debbie//
What does all of that mean??
Debbie
On my laptop, my Home Page is…
local.debbie
If I type this…
local.debbie/
…the URL changes back to…
local.debbie
But if I type in this…
local.debbie//
…then the URL remains as…
local.debbie//
What does all of that mean??
Debbie
DD,
// is the “marker” which separates the protocol from the domain, i.e., http://. Your example, however, is specifying a null directory name which must surely be indeterminate by every http daemon.
Regards,
DK
(Sorry for the late response - been a hellish week!)
The context of my question is this…
I have the following mod_rewrite…
#PRETTY: finance/
#UGLY: articles/index.php?section=finance
#Rewrite only if the request is not pointing to a real file (e.g. add_comment.php, index.php).
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#Match any kind of Section. PHP will decide if it's valid or not.
RewriteRule (.+)/$ articles/index.php?section=$1 [L]
And then in my Article index.php script, I have this data validation code…
if (isset($_GET['section']) && $_GET['section']){
// Section found in URL.
}else{
// Section Not found in URL.
$_SESSION['resultsCode'] = 'ARTICLE_INDEX_NO_QUERY_STRING_2422';
// Set Error Source.
$_SESSION['errorPage'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
// Redirect to Display Outcome.
header("Location: " . BASE_URL . "/account/results.php");
// End script.
exit();
}//End of ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE ARTICLES
I was expecting that if someone typed in…
local.debbie//
or
http://local.debbie//
…that my PHP code would treat that as a Null Section and my error-handling code in the ELSE branch of my PHP would fire?! :-/
Apparently my mod_rewrite and PHP don’t treat it that way?!
More so, do I really care?
I am just trying to make sure my mod_rewrite and PHP are ROCK-SOLID and handle really any scenario/combination where a hacker is screwing with either my “Pretty URL” or the “Ugly URL”…
Thanks,
Debbie