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Re: The location field; a vestige from the early d
by Matt on Wednesday 23/Nov/2005, @20:44

Yeah your right, you do need a way to toggle off and on the "formatted URL" and you also need a quick way to copy a link. But both of those features can be implemented along side the formatted features.

I guess one of the reasons why I really like this idea is because in many cases the URL ends up having so many different query strings that they become completely unreadable and quite useless at a glance. Being able to quickly see the site name and path gives an indication of the sites structure. Which I think can be useful for navigation.

Matt

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query strings being replaced with long paths
by Herman Robak on Thursday 24/Nov/2005, @00:04

Keep in mind that some CMSses "cheats" with their URLs to make them look like static content URLs:

From
http://www.some-cms.tld/cms-app.cgi?topic=foo&article=bar

To
http://www.some-cms.tld/cms-app/foo/bar

The latter is shorter and cleaner. And if the CMS is clever enough, it can provide all the proper directives (ETag, Last-Modified, Content-Length...) of a proper static document (brace yourselves for some weird bugs...)

This can be used to make the URLs more opaque, too. Instead of a lot of semi-readable parameters, you get one or two really long numbers, or random strings. You don't know how much of the URL is the path to the web application and where the input parameters to the web app start. Systematic digging for articles or vunlerabilities becomes harder that way.

Hence, the path and the query string are not separate entities.

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Re: The location field; a vestige from the early d
by jameth on Friday 25/Nov/2005, @21:11

I've suggested before and will suggest again that syntax highlighting be added to the address bar. It's not too hard to have some highlighting of key portions of the text (protocol, separator marks, query entries, whatever) and doesn't completely break proper usage of the location bar (pasting paths and hand-typing addresses). Also, it might make it easier for new users to learn what that stuff actually means.

Of course, I suggested that first over a year ago, so I expect nobody is gonna rush to implement it now.

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