I think you are doomed to lose this crusade, jonathan :) jonathan wrote: > > le 2001/07/26 17:32, Ken Shmidheiser à k.shmidheiser@... a écrit : > > > urlstr = "http://www.google.com" > > pretty please. > not putting a trailing slash on urls wastes machine time as the machine has > to suss out that the url is really: > "http://www.google.com/" > > if you measure the number of times that this must occur daily the lost time > is tremendous. personally i would be for refusing incorrectly formed urls, > but gnomes get bad-tempered easily. > > :-j > > PS. they get bad tempered, by getting tempered with mallets, but that as > they say... > > PPS. fortune of the day on macslash <http://macslash.com/> today: > Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold