[thelist] amazon url tip

Louis P Bennett lbenne01 at tufts.edu
Wed Jan 30 10:03:00 CST 2002


i've been lurking for too long... here's a tip. happy wednesday!

-louis

<tip author="louis" type="using amazon urls">
if you want to point to a book at amazon and also want to avoid
line-breaking urls, use a url of the form:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/foobar

where foobar is the ISBN of the item you're desribing. for example, if i
want to point to info on _The Mythical Man-Month..._, whose ISBN is
0201835959, you can link to:

The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition : Essays on Software
Engineering
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201835959

if you prefer to include an associate id, you can do so by adding
"/foobar" to the end of the url, where "foobar" is your amazon associate
id. for example, to modify the previous example to include my amazon
associate id ("quietcity"), i would write:

The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition : Essays on Software
Engineering
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201835959/quietcity

</tip>




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