They use there "home rolled" version of URL rewriting, they will be using
some parser to strip off the end number (the UID for the session) and then
redirect to the requested URL
ie http://server.com/servlet/TestServlet/732642347273
sessionID = 732642347273
requsetedURI = http://server.com/servlet/TestServlet
you can test this with amazon by turning off your cookies and putting
something
in your shopping basket, then leave the site and come back, you get another
SessionID and you loose your basket contents.
checkout "Java Server Programming" by Jason Hunter (the Guru) from O'Rreilly
he talks about this.
Alan
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>Hi,
>
>I`ve seen that some sites use URLs of this type:
>
>http://server.com/servlet/TestServlet/732642347273
>/parameter1/parameter2....
>
>(for example amazon.com does this...)
>
>why don`t they use "normal" URLs like
>
>http://server.com/servlet/TestServlet?
>ID=732642347273&xyz=iujhk&abc=jhseuf
>
>How do they access form data etc...?
>Is this method better than the "traditional way"?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Martin Lilienthal
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