STRANGENESS (typographical error???) at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README
While trying to follow a discussion involving a deeply nested debian.org
sub-directory, I attempted to find the purpose of that sub-directory by
following a chain of links titled "Parent Directory".
That led to http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ whose first link is to
"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README"; [NOTE BENE quotation marks].
That file (in part) reads:
Unstable, or sid. Access this release through dists/unstable. The
current development snapshot is named sid. Untested candidate
packages for future releases.
Older releases of Debian are at http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive
--- Other directories:
I pointed my browser to "http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive"; and got:
Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache Server at archive.debian.org Port 80
Suspecting a bad URL I went back to "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/";
whose HTML reads in part:
<h2>Old Releases</h2>
<p>Older releases of Debian are at
<a href="http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/";>http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive</a>
<br>
<a href="https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive";>More information</a>
</p>
and chose the link titled "README.html". It displayed *properly*.
I went back to the link triggering the "404 error" and added a trailing
"/" to the URL. It *then* displayed properly.
Is this a typo or a server problem?
[ understand "STRANGENESS" in my Subject: line? ;]
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