Proper way to check for URL equality

Question

I have the following scenario:

URL u1 = new URL(\"http://www.yahoo.com/\");
URL u2 = new URL(\"http://www.yahoo.com\");

if (u1.equals(u2)) {
    System.out.prin         


        

Answer 1

Strictly speaking they are not equal. The optional trailing slash (/) is only a common usage but not a must. You could display different pages for

http://www.yahoo.com/foo/

and for

http://www.yahoo.com/foo

It's even possible for the one you provided I believe the HTTP header could skip that slash.