Thanks Jacob, are there any articles, books, use cases, etc... on when/why/how you would have to design an application in this manner?
robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Hookom, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:06 AM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL > > > It all kind of depends... most of the content is pregenerated such as in > Amazon. Amazon uses what is called the ART1 algorithm to categorize users. > These categories (java geek, linux guru, etc) are pre-generated web sites, > created by some application they have in house (hence the cryptic url). > > So when you click around, you are interacting with a page that was > generated, along with all of the links. Think of the extra garble as your > session state that gets stored in the page you download to your computer vs. > being stored in memory on the server. > > Another example is JSF. JSF allows you to store your state client side or > server side. If it's client side, your buttons, etc become POSTs instead of > GETs in order to get around the URL length limit. Also, hidden fields are > written out with your objects serialized into a string that you repost next > time you click a link on the page. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL > > I'm not sure the subject of this email is indicative of my question, but I > have always wondered why amazon, sun, and some financial > institutions, > use long URL's for invoking actions. My only guess, since I've only worked > at small companies where all the applications pretty much > run on > one machine, is that the URL contains either encoded/sensitive information > or contains session information. I'm just wondering why > the heck does > it look so darn complex. > > For example, I just downloaded Sun's J2EE 1.4 SDK > > http://192.18.97.53/ECom/EComTicketServlet/BEGINjsecom16c.sun.com-9660%3A40e > 01d9a%3A3099733a3e651ac9/-2147483648/428874567/1/483962/ > 483914/428874567/2ts+/westCoastFSEND/j2eesdk-1.4_01-oth-JPR/j2eesdk-1.4_01-o > th-JPR:1/j2eesdk-1_4_01-windows.exe > > > after the "/-" then there appears to be some random numbers delimited by > forward slashes. > Is this some technique for sharing sessions across different applications? > > My apologies if this is one of those things that "everone" know's about > except me. > I really wasnn't sure how to google on this topic either, so if there is > some general > documentation I missed, please point me to it. > > > robert > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
