On 8/29/07, jtaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alvaro Carrasco wrote: > > ... > > I'm not against pretty urls, I have done them before because *I* think > > they're cool and they go well with the concepts of REST, but I would > > argue that right about 0% of non-developer humans actually care what > > urls look like. It's more of a cool thing for developers to do, than > > the usability booster people make it out to be. > > > One reason I've seen for "clean" urls is that it gives away less > information to potential hackers - I'm not really sure if this matters > but maybe it's like locking the screen door. >
an interesting point. i used to have a site that used the query "?page=foo". once it was well indexed by google, i got a ton of automated bot attacks (20-30 a week? it's been a while...) where they would try urls like "?page=http://example.com/badscript.txt";. i built the CMS right, so they weren't a threat, but it still was a _lot_ of traffic. when i switched the site over to clean urls, the bots stopped. completely. as a side note, i now have a great collection of interesting scripts... justin -- http://justinhileman.com _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
