The browser will treat them differently when it comes to relative URLs. A page at:
http://server/path
with a relative link like:
<a href='other'>
will resolve that link to:
http://server/other
replacing path
with other
. Whereas if the starting URL was:
http://server/path/
then the resolved link would be:
http://server/path/other
If path
is a directory rather than a file, most web servers will automatically redirect from:
http://server/path
to:
http://server/path/
because that's almost certainly what you meant.