I read that the / was used for name/value pairs because so that some of the older search engines would index all the pages since some thought that ?name=value meant it was a dynamic page and shouldn't be indexed.
-----Original Message----- From: Konstantin Priblouda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:53 AM To: Turbine Users List Subject: Re: Advanced newbie questions > This will allow one to use / in the templates, the > urls will still > contain , (comma) > Turbine treats pathinfo as name/value pairs. > Therefore you cannot use / > in template paths as it will mess up the name value > pairing. > > template/store,Department.vm/id/1 => > template=store,Department.vm and > id=1 > template/store/Department.vm/id/1 => template=store > and Department.vm=id > and 1= Well, I see. But why to choose / as separator? What was wrong with classical way of parameter passing? ( ?&= ) If it would be used there will be no need to write parameter parsing. It would be done by servlet container. BTW, am I wrong that turbine is meant too be used with path mapping only? > comma was chosen as the separator as it 1. works, 2. > is/was used by a > major web publishing tool (I think Vignette, but > could be mistaken). My > irc client forces me to c/p links containing commas, > but other than that > i have never noticed much problem with using them. There is only one problem -> it looks ugly "template/user%2CFluxUserList.vm" regards, ===== Konstantin Priblouda ( ko5tik ) Freelance Software developer < http://www.pribluda.de > < play java games -> http://www.yook.de > < render charts online -> http://www.pribluda.de/povray/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
