mbutterick
commented
3 years ago Has there been effforts or thoughts on creating canonical links in a similar vein as the first example with pollen?
No, because this* is a form of magic performed by a web server, and Pollen has a strong policy against magical thinking. In any case, it seems unnecessary: why not write a link tag function that omits the trailing index.html for URLs inside the /post/ directory.
* meaning, expanding a directory-terminated URL to include index.html **
** behavior that is itself subject to change by settings in the .htaccess file. For instance on beautifulracket.com, I use intro.html as the directory default rather than index.html (so that I can generate page navigation links that are the same as the filename)
jnboehm
Most blog engines form links from blog posts routing to a directory (i. e.
example.com/post/my-title/), whereas pollen has a titled html file as the result (soexample.com/post/my-title.html). Has there been effforts or thoughts on creating canonical links in a similar vein as the first example with pollen?I personally prefer that option as it keeps the result language agnostic, despite serving the same html file content (some supporting blog posts).
The approach taken for this would essentially boil down to creating the directory in question and generating the html file there (like
example.com/post/my-title/index.html). This would change the meaning of a.poly.pmor.html.pmfile so that would also be an argument against this behavior.