URL canonicalization

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Dan Libby wrote:

> Still, I wonder about things like %20 and + in the URL. They can mean
> the same character when unescaped.

They're sent over the wire differently, so webservers MAY do something
different.

> Or a URL like "http://people.com/users//sally", where the "//" should be
> converted to a single '/' by the webserver.

Likewise.  You may live in an Apache/directory world, but not all
webservers have to do that.  // may be totally different than /.

- Brad