* Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-31 21:55]: > Oh, and your module looks like it's exactly what I need. > Thanks!
Cool. :) > It seems everyone wants to use URLs as unique ids, but URLs > change all the time. Glad to see that you're using UUIDs. :) Well it depends. You can store the initially minted URI, just like you need to store the UUID. Technically, there is no actual difference. But I prefer to suggest UUIDs because they remove any temptation to derive them from other properties of the resource or to interpret them as something other than an opaque token. > (BTW, is there a standard way to look up a UUID on someone's > site? I don't expose this functionality in my software right > now, but it's used internally and could be exposed if useful to > others.) No. The lack of such a mechanism for the _general_ case is the entire point of UUIDs. :-) They are opaque names, not addresses. Of course, if you want to provide a custom lookup mechanism for your UUIDs, that’s your prerogative. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
