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Generate meaningful URLs

(from paw)


Let me find software files by using the URL and pasting in the path I want to see e.g. here are three different ways a URL can locate identical resources, the bottom two are useful to humans:

  • This is the current way, and tells me nothing:

http://fossology.mydomain.com/?mod=view-license&show=detail&upload=225&item=1440235&ufile=1427706&pfile=786104

  • This would let me browse based upon my knowledge of mirror sites:

http://fossology.mydomain.com/Ubuntu-7.1/pool/main/a/apache2/apache2_2.2.3.orig.tar.gz/httpd-2.2.3/LICENSE

  • This would let me browse by relying upon my knowledge of system files:

http://fossology.mydomain.com/Ubuntu-7.1/usr/share/doc/apache2/copyright


One way to look at this is to implement it as a search:

http:fossology.mydomain.com/?search="Ubuntu-7.1/usr/share/doc/apache2/copyright"
 
task/generate_meaningful_urls.txt · Last modified: 2009/07/20 11:31 by bobg

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