I see what you're saying, but I wasn't coming from it from a purely aesthetic point of view. More the fact that having a filename in the middle of what looks like a directory structure seems wrong - it makes it really clear that you're doing *something* to the URL. I was rather hoping for something that would look more like a natural URL. I just feel that it looks more professional.
But hey, maybe that's just me. I certainly don't expect everyone to share my opinion on this. :) That would be boring. ~Seona 2009/12/19 Barry Beattie <[email protected]> > please forgive in saying so, but > > "I'm not really keen on the whole idea of having the index.cfm stuck > in the middle of the URL like that - I think it looks kludgy." > > does it really matter? Since when are URL's aesthetically pleasing? > look at the crap in the "address bar" of many applications - more > often than not it looks like alphabet soup. > > "Friendly URL's" are a different matter: they are designed to provide > a sensible mapping between using the URL as a "name" to "content". A > la REST. > > but Fusebox, esp earlier versions, are far from presenting their URL's > in a friendly, easy to remember format. > > just my 2c > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Seona Bellamy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Err... I am using Fusebox. The only plugin I can find means that you end > up > > with a url along the lines of: > > > > http://www.myserver.com/index.cfm/action/main.home/variable1/value1 > > > > I'm not really keen on the whole idea of having the index.cfm stuck in > the > > middle of the URL like that - I think it looks kludgy. On the other hand, > > the plugin I found was a few years old. If you can point me at a more > recent > > one that fixes this problem, then I'd be thrilled! :) > > > > And yeah, I do get what you're saying about real rewriting needing to > happen > > at the webserver level. That's how I've worked with it in the past but > was > > just playing around with the idea to see fi I could find an alternative. > > > > Thanks for your input! :) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Seona. > > > > 2009/12/19 Daniel Punton <[email protected]> > >> > >> I honesty doubt you can find one solution for both IIS and apache. That > is > >> the crux as the redirection/aliasing (rewrite) has to happen at the > >> webserver level. > >> If you were only using fusebox you could of course use a plugin. > >> Dan > >>> > >>> Seona Bellamy <[email protected]> Dec 18 02:34PM +1100 ^ > >>> > >>> Hi guys, > >>> > >>> I'm using my time off work to play around with some old half-finished > >>> projects that have been knocking around my hard-drive for a few years, > >>> seeing what I can bring to them with the new techniques and > perspectives > >>> I > >>> learned in my last job. One of these projects in a half-built Fusebox 4 > >>> app > >>> and the issue I've been thinking about today is friendly URLs. > >>> > >>> In my last job, we used ISAPI Rewrite to handle the URL rewiring for > our > >>> CMS. It was very effective and relatively easy to customise once you > got > >>> your head around the syntax, but the main problem I see with it is that > >>> it's > >>> only feasible when you have control over the server and can make sure > >>> that > >>> the necessary software is installed and suchlike. (That's my > >>> understanding > >>> of it, anyway, so please correct me if I'm wrong!) > >>> > >>> I'm looking to create something that can be taken and uploaded to any > CF > >>> server, including shared hosting providers, and "just work". That's the > >>> theory anyway. So I was thinking about ways that you could write > >>> something > >>> in CF to handle this. I've done some searching and the only options I > can > >>> find are rather old (most seemed to date around 2005 as far as I could > >>> tell) > >>> and so I'm not sure how relevant they would still be. > >>> > >>> So is this something that anyone has done or knows of being done and > can > >>> point me to? Is there a way to handle it in Fusebox so that you don't > >>> need > >>> to keep the index.cfm in the middle of the URL (as all the examples I > >>> found > >>> seem to do)? Am I just indulging in a pipe dream here and sound give up > >>> and > >>> play with something else? > >>> > >>> Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be welcome on this. 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