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][1] 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][2] page.

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

  [1]: http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/f/why-urls-end-in-slash.htm
  [2]: http://webdesign.about.com