I 100% agree, this is a far better approach than the index.cfm/key/value approach.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Jan 21 00:57:59 2007 Subject: Re: Apache config Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > Well, your URL is simple a rewrite of index.cfm?foo=foo, it is not a > permanent location for this document in that if I bookmark this page and you > delete foo, I will be 100% guaranteed to get it again. This is simple a > facade onto the normal query string approach. The fact you still have > index.cfm in the URL points to a hack. Ah, I think that there was a misunderstanding then. I was discussing rewriting, which would remove the index.cfm altogether. I advocated a url of the form: http://www.doughughes.net/articles/coldfusion/search-engine-friendly-urls-wi th-coldfusion/ where articles, coldfusion and search-engine-friendly-urls-with-coldfusion map to variables that you then use to serve up the content in question. The point being, the content could be a file that you move around on the filesystem or it could be in a cms or migrated from one to another while still keeping the same URI. I too do not like having index.cfm in the middle of a url. It is still true that if I delete the content (or website for that matter) then your bookmark will fail. But that is only true in the most trivial sense, like saying that falling down won't hurt if you turn off gravity. And I would not consider using a rewrite scheme to be a hack at all. The spec for URI's do not require that items in the url map directly to folders/files. It is rather a scheme for organizing information and providing an addressing mechanism. And if we can keep URI's permanent and human readable, then we've accomplished what URI's were intended for. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:267074 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
