form action="/login" autocomplete="on" method="POST" class="Form__TBkbl6WYB9WAqzg-uU2EE"
I expected to see something like login.php or some other PHP file.
What does the / mean?
Is this some form of security measure?
form action="/login"? What does the slash mean?
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2 Answers
The forward slash tells the browser to go to the root of the domain to serve the request. Without the / it goes from the relative path. Since there also is no extension it is likely mod_rewrite is being used to remove extensions. (e.g. https://alexcican.com/post/how-to-remove-php-html-htm-extensions-with-htaccess/ or https://www.google.com/search?q=url+rewrite+remove+extension)
If you have example.com/account/ and used login.php it would serve from example.com/account/ with the leading / it will serve from example.com/.
This provides no security and is only for cosmetics/functionality. No client side code is sufficient for SQL injection prevention.
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