But, if you would like to have more traditional URLs in addition to the continuation/cryptic ones, you can use the web-server/dispatch library:
http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/dispatch.html It starts with a bit of guide to orient you before the reference manual. It allows you to create URLs like /posts/456 and if during the generation of that page you hit a continuation operation, the URL will be something like /posts/456;gobbledygook where the last "clean" URL is inside of the current "ugly" URL. I find that most people want to mostly use web-server/dispatch but occasionally use continuations for the sequential computations in their Web app. Jay On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu>wrote: > Hi R. Noob, > > > Do the URLs of pages that use continuation > > mechanism have to look ugly and cryptic? > > Yes they do. The URLs are ugly *because* they are cryptic. They are > cryptic because it is a route to system security. If they were > pretty, people could guess them, and that would adversely affect > security in a huge way. > > Incidentally, this is something we stressed from the very beginning > (~late 2000). It meant that certain kinds of Web attacks over which > people and Web sites spent a great deal of time (such as CSRF attacks) > could simply never occur for systems built atop the PLT Web server. > > This idea is also incorporated into Google's Belay project: > > https://sites.google.com/site/belayresearchproject/ > > If you look at the list of features they state, essentially every > single one of these maps onto "ugly and cryptic" URLs. > > Shriram > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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