I have always choosen an extension that was meaningful for the application... for instance, for a system I did called Transfer Of Assets, it was .toa... for the blog on my own page it is .blog. I never really thought about it in terms of URLs not changing or being able to know what technology was in use, it just made sense to me.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Fri, July 29, 2005 8:55 am, Jeff Beal said: > Imagine a company currently using PHP who decides their app has grown > past the constraints of PHP. It would be silly of them to change the > file extension on their URIs just because they're changing technology, > so they just map *.php to the Struts Servlet. > > Of course, if the web developers at that company were really smart, > they'd have been following the guidelines described in > http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html and wouldn't have such a > problem. Few people do this, though. > > -- Jeff > > On 7/28/05, John Henry Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I mapped to .html but not .asp, and I doubt many people would map java >> apps to .php, .asp or .aspx in hosting companies (Of course u can >> technically but I can not see the benefit). That's why I assume if I see >> .php, I know it is php site with 99% confidence. >> >> The reason for our mapping to html was that this page is rather stable >> and I don't change their contents over time (in general). And for >> security reason as Stéphane said. For PHP and perl it is very simple to >> do that. For java it is a little more difficult but manageable. It can >> give you more URL addresses as Neil said. >> >> As for jsf, is it .jspx? or maybe mapping to others? It is possible jsf >> maps to html. jsf using .aspx? It is unthinkable even technically >> possible. >> >> John H. Xu >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Neil Erdwien" >> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" >> Subject: Re: JSF is the beginning of the end of Struts !!! >> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:01:29 -0500 >> >> > >> > I presume preserving URLs is the reason to map one technology's >> > default extention to another. For example, if you have a static >> > web site with files than end in .html, and switch to Java/Struts, >> > then you can map *.html to the Struts' action servlet. >> > >> > The end users' bookmarks don't have to change, but you're really >> > running a Struts action under the covers. >> > >> > >> > Stéphane Zuckerman wrote: >> > > John Henry Xu a écrit : >> > > >> > >>>> Actually, my favorite sites are the >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> ones that map "*.asp" to the Struts servlet. Gotta love people >> that >> > >>> bend minds like that! >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> I cannot imagine what motivates people tried to map there >> servlets to >> > >> .asp. Even I could easily map my site to .aspx, I would not do >> that. >> > >> Although I respect MS, I am not really a huge fun of Microsoft. >> If I >> > >> implement sites with Java, I want java take credits. If I >> implement sites >> > >> in PHP, I want PHP take credits, I would not map that to .asp. >> If I use >> > >> .net, I don't map it to jsp also. If I saw a site ends with .php >> or >> > >> .aspx, I assume that was a php and .net site, and I belieave I >> am right >> > >> on that with 99% confidence. >> > > >> > > >> > > I guess this is against wannabe crackers. Yes, yes, I know, >> security >> > > through obscurity, blah blah blah... Well, once you've done >> everything >> > > that isn't obfuscation-related, there is only obscurity that >> remains, >> > > and frankly, it does help gain a few {minutes,hours} before the >> nasty >> > > black hats break the server. :-) >> > > >> > >> > -- Neil Erdwien, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web Technologies Manager >> > Computing and Network Services, Kansas State University >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> John H. Xu >> >> >> http://www.usanalyst.com >> >> http://www.GetusJobs.com (The largest free job portal in North America) >> >> -- >> ___________________________________________________________ >> Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com >> http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
