http://myblog.com/articles/net-neutrality-and-you
http://myblog.com/ <-- Application + default controller mapped in routes.py articles/ <-- The function that retrieve articles from db net-neutrality-and-you <-- request.args(0) | the article slug where is the problem? I dont think anybody wants to have one controller for every article, that should be stored in database, and that can be fetched by the 'slug' in the same way plugin_wiki does. 2010/8/25 Kevin <extemporalgen...@gmail.com> > On Aug 25, 1:13 pm, Michele Comitini <michele.comit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > why not have a dictionary? > > > > controllers = {'route-me-if-you-can': any_time_you_want} > > if lookup misses method name is searched as it is? > > That would be a viable alternative to routes, except it's not > desirable to have to hand-code routes except when you want to do > something 'special' -- hyphens on the web are quickly becoming more > common then underscores. > > > > Are Python restrictions relevant for applications and controllers? Or > just filename restrictions? I'm not sure. > > Generally speaking, no restrictions are relevant (not even filename > restrictions) except for total URL length (all typical servers have > some maximum URL length that they'll handle, as do browsers). > However, url-encoded paths (like /some%20where/over/there) are to be > avoided at all costs. Pretty much [a-zA-Z0-9/_~.-] are the characters > that are commonly used in URLs (not counting ?, &, and = for query > strings), with strict lower-case only or camel-case both being trendy > in that order, and with hyphens showing up better underlined links > unlike underscores. > > If possible, it's especially good practice provide only URLs that > users can write down easily, such as <http://myblog.com/articles/5>, > and especially favoring ones that are self descriptive, like <http:// > myblog.com/articles/net-neutrality-and-you>, for obvious reasons (I > personally consider hybridized URLs like <http://myblog.com/articles/5/ > net-neutrality-and-you> to be junk because there are two unique > identifiers in the URL). -- http://rochacbruno.com.br
