Competition

[Rick Measham]

In other words .. don't look in /A/Very/Big/Directory/. Only look in places
ending with a pipe (|):
/A/Very/Big
/A/Very/Big/Directory/Reference
/A/Very/Big/Directory/Reference/Links

on 20/11/02 9:38 AM, Nathan Bailey at Nathan.Bailey at its.monash.edu wrote:

> Scott Penrose <scottp at dd.com.au> wrote:
>> The simple solution that we came up with was replacing the '/' in the
>> URL with a '|', where on failure to find a page would fall back one step.
>> 
>> Eg: the url "/A/Very/Big|Directory/Reference|Links"
> 
> I don't understand why 'Directory/Reference' has a '/'?
> 
> N

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