This is actually an upscaled work in progress, not finished yet, but I’m working on templates for a future tattoo.

Yes that’s hand drawn. Yes it’s already scannable…

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Curious I am now, trailing slash?

    This wasn’t encoded with a trailing slash, nor does the scanner app I use decode it with a trailing slash.

    I’m not sure, but if it is decoding with a trailing slash on your side, that might be your scanner app doing that automatically.

    Formally speaking, coming from the dialup internet days, full proper URLs were meant to end in a trailing slash, and if you didn’t type the trailing slash in yourself, some web browsers would have to ping the site twice before it figured out it needed that trailing slash, slowing down website loading time.

    I dunno, thank goodness the internet has evolved enough where https://www.time.gov/ can be simplified to https://time.gov/

    On my end, my web browser itself (Fennec, a fork of Firefox), put the trailing slash in on its own… 🤷

    Edit: I can’t even force edit out the trailing slash in my comment here. I think that trailing slash thing is just literally burned into the internet/URL protocols…

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I don’t know either if lack of a slash after domain makes for an invalid URL, I think they will just work, similarly you can just type “time.gov” into the address bar and the browser knows to try HTTPS on port 443 and HTTP on port 80, and request the document path “/” (explicitly, this is “https://time.gov/”). Lemmy and Fennec automatically add trailing slashes to them, apparently. However, you can cheat that by creating a hyperlink whose display text is “https://time/.<zwsp>gov” where “<zwsp>” is a zero-width space.

      By the way, “www.” is a subdomain like any other, but people tend to add/remove it at will so it is considered good practice to make a redirect, or point the DNS A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) records to the same server, and mark one copy as “canonical” (this is required by search engines). Yet, there are many servers that only work with or without “www.”, and possibly some where the content differs.

      Edit: that “explicit” URL got the port (:443) edited out by Lemmy!