On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:15:53PM +1300, Helmut Walle wrote: ... > > still coding it unambiguously, they get to the shorter links. The loss > > of human intelligibility is almost unavoidable if you have a simple > > piece of software do this.
... > >http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3ddd586f0bab8886273fc0a87f99076f/Product/View/XH4247 > contains a session key. ... > add some url rewriting and this could also work: > http://www.dse.co.nz/Product/View/XH4247 > still XH4247 is not ideal, but on the wholw a lot better than the > original and alsmost as short as: > http://makeashorterlink.com/?D25E21682 > > > I do not say it is impossible, but it might cost a lot. > > naa, all it takes is some thinking at the design stage. Hi Martin, Design stage of what? The Internet? Technically, I agree with your suggestion. But as I wrote earlier, the problem with it is that you want to change something on the DSE server in this case. What makeashorterlink offers, is independent of the DNS name / server ownership. They do not have to make any checks whether directory names like "Product" already exist. And they can, because they are not onwning all the web servers, not make changes on the DSE server. So while your suggestion may be user-friendly, it depends on the respective content provider's will to support it. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
