Has anybody experienced a redirect crawl error where the url is a directory name without a trailing forward slash? so the web server will parse the URL and look for the default document. But the web browswer shows a slightly different address in the address bar: Is this due to an action by the webserver or the web browser? Is this the redirect error that I am getting? Does the link www.site.com mean the same as the link www.site.com/ ?
if the browser is showing "www.site-name.com/directory/" then server will parse and look for default document to load. Without the "/" at the end can resolve to a page.
What he means is that depending on how your server is configured, it MAY or MAY NOT resolve http://www.example.com/directory to the proper page. Some server configurations will result in the server looking for a page called "directory" in the root folder of your web when your browser requests http://www.example.com/directory. Other server configurations help the server know that you really meant run the default document for the folder http://www.example.com/directory/ (i.e. http://www.example.com/directory/index.html or http://www.example.com/directory/index.php or http://www.example.com/directory/default.asp) when your browser requests http://www.example.com/directory.