Re: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-07-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
Bryan Hunt wrote: I think someone in sun just wanted to create something fancy regardless of what the customers wanted just so he/she could put it on their cv. Anyone who thinks this is the real reason hasn't read the technology export restriction regulations that apply to US companies. The res

Re: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Guillermo Castro
Well, even though they may not include your client session, it does include information about you (username) and other stuff, that will identify who's downloading what. For many application servers, long URLs usually are part of the identification process, like session id and stuff. For many java

RE: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Robert Taylor
Daniel, thanks for the reply. You pretty much confirmed my own assumptions. robert > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:58 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL >

Re: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Bryan Hunt
I know that the sun link does not authenticate your current client session. I know that because I wanted to download the JDK for linux. I wanted to download it directly to the server but they have that stupid web page based download. I got the whole url, ssh'd into my server and used wget to downlo

RE: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Daniel Perry
I dont think there is any information out there of the type you're requesting (it's not really a 'pattern'). Long URLs are long because there is a lot of information to transfer. The big long codes given in urls are often are often hashes (eg session id!). These are made long so that it's hard t

RE: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Hookom, Jacob
43,22,4 POST: /app/updateItems.do (all the data isn't encrypted in the URL) -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:11 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL Hookom, Jacob wrote: > An

Re: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Hookom, Jacob wrote: 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 str

RE: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Robert Taylor
sers 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 pr

RE: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Hookom, Jacob
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