Very +1 on whatever it takes to getting nicer URLs into GeoServer.

I'll chime back in when we have the discussion on what exactly these pretty 
URLs should be.  :)

Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org


David Winslow wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Some of us at OpenGeo have been lamenting the overly long/verbose URLs
> produced by Wicket.  Wicket provides a concept of 'mounting' pages at
> particular URLs, which we could use to clean them up a bit.  I've put
> together a small patch (attached) that uses the title i18n key for menu
> pages as the mounted path as a small example (note this is just a sort
> of proof-of-concept, I am NOT proposing that we uses the title keys.  I
> am really NOT proposing that we i18n-ize the URLs.)
> 
> I'd like to add a 'prettyPath' or 'shortPath' field to MenuPageInfo to
> allow those context items to provide a nice URL for the pages they
> describe.  We could leave it optional to avoid requiring a 'big-bang'
> migration, but in the long run I'm not sure whether it should be
> mandatory or not.
> 
> Another question I have is whether we should extend this support to
> other types of contributed pages (demo links?)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> --
> David Winslow
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
> 
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