[pmwiki-users] Putting ".html" extensions onto pages

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:57:53AM +0100, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> tis 2006-02-28 klockan 18:17 -0600 skrev Patrick R. Michaud:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:42:10AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've been planning to add an extension that will allow PmWiki 
> > > to ignore trailing ".html" extensions on pagenames, and to generate them
> > > on page links, but just haven't completed that yet.
> > 
> > A question for the list:  I'm thinking of setting the core distribution
> > so that it ignores any ".html" extension that happens to appear at
> > the end of a pagename in a url.  For example, PmWiki would treat
> > the following urls as equivalent requests for the Main.WikiSandbox:
> > 
> >     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Main/WikiSandbox
> >     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Main/WikiSandbox.html
> 
> The only thing I can see is some confusion:
> 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Main.html --> redirects to Main/Main or
> Main/Html?

At the moment it wouldn't redirect at all--it would simply serve
up the Main.Html page since this is a valid page request.

> I must say I really don't understand the rationale at all. Millions and
> millions of sites don't use .html at all. How can anyone be
> uncomfortable with that (okay, in 1992 that would have been strange, but
> 2006...)? Please enlighten me :-)

Because some browsers (notably IE, but there are others) like the
extension to be present when viewing saved copies of the page.
That's really the primary reason.

Pm