Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students
by sureaboutthis on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:42AM
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No. A directory gives you a list of pointers to data and files. A folder contains that data and files (though directories can conveniently contain them, too). On the web, any URI that ends with a "/" is specified to look first for an index file--such as index.html--which should contain a listing of links to files and other directories.
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Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students
by afarrell on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:24AM
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> A directory gives you a list of pointers to data and files. A folder contains that data and files (though directories can conveniently contain them, too)
From an implementation perspective, you are correct. But that doesn't rebut what your parent comment is saying.
> On the web, any URI that ends with a "/" is specified to look first for an index file--such as index.html--which should contain a listing of links to files and other directories.
That is not my experience with most of the web. I've seen it, but not really that much in the past 6 years.
Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students
by sureaboutthis on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:58AM
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I don't recall the RFC number but it is in the standard specification.