S.Isaac Dealey wrote:
>> 1. (a) http://example.com/archives/2005/4/25/
>> (b)
>> http://example.com/archives.cfm?yr=2005&mth=4&dy=25
>> (c)
>>http://example.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.archives&yr=2
>>005&mth=4&dy=25
>
> You know, there's nothing keeping me from using
> http://example.com/archives/?2005/4/25
> http://example.com/archives.cfm?2005/4/25
>
> You can get the data from the variable #cgi.query_string# although
> according to the article, these would not pass as SES url's merely
> because they include a question-mark in the url.
Yup, I I agree completely. And with a tiny bit of hacking with
CGI.PATH_INFO and CGI.SCRIPT_NAME, you could do:
http://example.com/archives.cfm/2005/4/25
>> 2. (a) http://example.com/entries/name-of-an-entry/
>> http://example.com/entries/348/
>> (b) http://example.com/entries.cfm?name=name-of-entry
>> http://example.com/entries.cfm?id=348
>> (c)
>>http://example.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.entry&name=na
>>me-of-entry
>> http://example.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.entr
>> y&id=348
>
>>And so on. I think you'll agree that the (a)s are a bit
>>easier on the user.
>
> a bit
And as a bonus, if you're doing URL remapping, you can, if need be,
rearchitect the app without breaking the URLs. And there's fewer
useless warts on it too. :-)
K.
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