>>>>> "geoffrey" == Geoffrey Talvola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
geoffrey> Terrel Shumway wrote: >> > I agree completely that the way an app server like Webware >> manages URI >> > space should make no assumptions about filesystems. That's, in >> > my view, the major Webware wart. >> >> I hadn't thought of it that way. But yes, that is exactly right. geoffrey> I'm happy to see more flexibility in Webware's URI geoffrey> handling as long as the current behavior remains the geoffrey> default behavior out of the box. I suppose that's reasonable, if for least-surprise reasons, if no other, though least-surprise has a limited shelf life, IMO. geoffrey> More flexible URI handling is a bonus for geoffrey> content-management types of applications, but it doesn't geoffrey> help at all for the type of application I'm developing geoffrey> (and for many other apps too). I think it's almost entirely orthogonal to the *kind* of application one is building; that is, I just don't see any positive reason to make assumptions about filesystem entities in the code that resolves a URI into some resource on the server that is responsible for that URI. Amazon is a pretty good example; there's a rather complex Web app that runs the site, and I can't ever remember seeing a ?query-string URL; it appears to pass all arguments as hierarchical elements separated by "/". That doesn't strike me as application *type*-specific at all. In some cases, it's merely a matter of style, preference, and other considerations (like those in the W3C's URI style recommendations). Best, Kendall Clark _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
