Is trailing slash automagically added on click of home page URL in browser?

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Published on 2012-10-14T05:50:48Z Indexed on 2012/10/14 9:52 UTC
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I am asking this because whenever I mouseover a link to a home page (e.g. http://www.example.com), I notice that a trailing slash is always added (as observed on the status bar of the browser) whether the home page link contains a href attribute that ends with a slash or not. But whenever I am on the home page, the URL on display will not have a trailing slash.

I tried entering a slash to the URL in the URL bar. And with Firebug enabled, I notice that the site always return a 200 OK status. An article here discussing this states that having a slash at the end will avoid a 301 redirection. But I am not seeing any redirection, even on this page.

Could this be a browser feature that is appending the slash?

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