[Seaside] Meaningful URLs was (Re: HV intro...) on the Squeak list

[Jimmie Houchin]

Cees,

If you sent the quoted message I did not receive it. So all see is what
is below.

I have emailed URLs which spanned 3-4 lines in my email client. Yuck.

Some webpages have no title. For example I was just reading the Seaside
Tutorials. The title is "Untitled". If it weren't for a readable URL it
would be unknown.

URLs persist and are exchanged.
URLs exist in email clients and other Text based apps.

Philip Greenspun talks about URLs in his book about web publishing. I
don't agree with all he writes, but I agree about much on URLs.

I understand that there are times when certain data needs to be embedded
in URLs, but I don't think the URL must be extraordinarily long or ugly
to accomplish such.

I personally like sensible URLs.
If possible I would like for whatever I choose to develop my website/app
in to have as reasonable URLs as possible.

This may be something we agree to disagree on.
That's okay too.

Jimmie Houchin


On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 13:57, Cees de Groot wrote:
> Cees de Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> said:
> >I've got some very ugly URLs between my bookmarks. I couldn't care less,
> >because the software shows the title of the page, not the URL itself. 
> >
> I was a bit too quick here, completely overlooked the fact that these ugly
> URL's tend to have session identifiers in them and thus are invalid
> two weeks later. Oops. However, this can be dealt with gracefully in a lot of
> cases by the server - simply create a new session and redirect the user. Or
> encrypt everything necessary for the session in the ugly URL and forget about
> keeping it around server-side, so that it effectively never expires. 
> 
> 
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