On 7/13/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In fact I had this requirement multiple times, marketing departments of
> large companies don't want to show the user cryptic urls he don't
> understand. Last time I had it a large austrian company from the food
> sector, they reasoned, they don't want different urls, because they want
> always their "cool url". (The solution was the frameset, since the
> background of the side was white, 1pix white border above the content didn't
> matter).

Because of idiots like these (I mean your Austrian company) I have to
go another mile and to open a frame in a separate window and bookmark
it.

> Another point may be, that you don't want a user to bookmark a specific
> action, because it's so highly dynamical, that it doesn't make sense. If you
> always show the same url, the (normal dummy) user always bookmarks and comes
> out at your homepage.

An application should be intelligent enough to recognize that a user
requested an invalid resource, and tell him that resource is removed,
and redirect him to home page.

But I can live with frames, using POST for everything is the most
hideous solution ever.

Michael.

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