Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm wondering how sites these days are
managing their content and AJAX calls.  How is it that Facebook
is able to have a URL like: http://www.facebook.com/zuck
without with / on the end of zuck like
http://www.facebook.com/zuck/  This is obviously really handy as
they don't actually need to create a sub-directory called zuck.
I noticed as well that places like http://hypem.com/popular is
doing it too. Convenient for them as they're able to run their
media player without breaks and they don't need to to have a #
in their URL.  share|improve this question  closed as unclear
what you're asking by Musa, Mr. Alien, vladr, BeatAlex, Paul-Jan
Mar 6 at 12:27   The answer is .htaccess URL Rewrite –  Mr.
Alien Nov 15 '12 at 4:31 URLs don't have to map to a filestem!
zuck/ does not have to be a directory somewhere. Some
applications take the URL and map it to a filesystem, some don't
(take Ruby on Rails and its map.resources.) And I don't
understand why on Earth you came to think that the tra