I'm not sure the subject of this email is indicative of my question, but I have always wondered why amazon, sun, and some financial institutions, use long URL's for invoking actions. My only guess, since I've only worked at small companies where all the applications pretty much run on one machine, is that the URL contains either encoded/sensitive information or contains session information. I'm just wondering why the heck does it look so darn complex.
For example, I just downloaded Sun's J2EE 1.4 SDK http://192.18.97.53/ECom/EComTicketServlet/BEGINjsecom16c.sun.com-9660%3A40e01d9a%3A3099733a3e651ac9/-2147483648/428874567/1/483962/ 483914/428874567/2ts+/westCoastFSEND/j2eesdk-1.4_01-oth-JPR/j2eesdk-1.4_01-oth-JPR:1/j2eesdk-1_4_01-windows.exe after the "/-" then there appears to be some random numbers delimited by forward slashes. Is this some technique for sharing sessions across different applications? My apologies if this is one of those things that "everone" know's about except me. I really wasnn't sure how to google on this topic either, so if there is some general documentation I missed, please point me to it. robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
