On Nov 5, 2007 10:26 PM, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Greaves wrote: > > Adam Lindsay wrote: > >> Martin Deutsch wrote: > >>> But if you're talking well-designed URLs for journey planning, see: > >>> http://www.traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/birmingham/8:00 > >> > >> Thank you for that site pointer. An excellent example, and a great one > >> to bookmark! > > Thanks. :-) > > > You want an 8am train from Cardiff to Birmingham? > > > > http://www.traintimes.org.uk/8:00/cardiff/birmingham > > > > The requested URL /8:00/cardiff/birmingham was not found on this server. > > Hmm, works fine here. ;-) > > > <sigh> people are so complicated... > > Well, all you had to do was ask. ;) > > The reason it's as it is by default, by the way, is because URLs are > hierarchical, and it's pretty pointless to supply a time without a from or a > to (whereas cutting any bit off a default URL returns what you'd expect).
"How can I help?" "Hi, yes, I need a train now please, 8:00 from Cardiff" "And what's the destination?" "I don't care" "I'm sorry, madam, we do need a destination." "Do you know who I am?!" "I'm sorry, no..." "I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here!" P > The front page gives the "manual", such as it is. > > Another site I've done, http://landmarktrust.dracos.co.uk/ uses a key=value > URL structure, so that it doesn't matter in what order the variables are > presented. > > > TinyURL is clever - it's small and easy to *transcribe*. > > Well, unless you can get 1 and l, or O and 0 confused. :) > > ATB, > Matthew | http://traintimes.org.uk/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
