[wp-hackers] Trailing Slash on Template Tags

[Viper007Bond]

Yeah, it's very minor and users are expecting no trailing slash (which
applies to more things than just URLs -- regex, str_replace(), etc.). As the
saying goes, If it's not (truly) broken, don't fix it.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Aaron Brazell <emmensetech at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It is a hit on Apache though. Minor, but Apache needs the slash to
> determine
> file or directory. It's an access time issue.
> Say you type in http://wordpress.org/extend
>
> Apache responds by looking for a file called extend. Access point A. It
> doesn't find it, so it fails back on directory lookup. Access point B. The
> slash just saves Apache some access time and a little work. Neglible on a
> small level. Big on scale.
>
> Personally, though, I think the slash at this point is moot for what it
> gains us.
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Alexander Beutl <xel at netgra.de> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > but it's much too late to add it.
> >
> > try using // instead of / - tell you what - it works the same.
> > There is no difference in going to
> > http://wordpress.org//download/
> > or
> > http://wordpress.org/download/
> >
> > both work perfectly.
> >
> > So I would say with that it is not to late to change it since this would
> > make both possible (hardcoding the / or not).
> >
> > Ciao
> > Alex
> >
> > 2008/5/29 Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>:
> >
> > > I'd agree if the function was new, but it's much too late to add it.
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Chris Poteet <cpoteet at siolon.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why don't template tags such as bloginfo('template_url') include the
> > > > trailing slash?  I mean, it has to be there anyway so why not add it?
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