[Javascript] URL Display

[Rakesh Pai]

And shouldn't you hide the extension? The URL is part of the
user-interface, (If not google, this is the single most imporatant way
your user will ever reach your site) and anyone will tell you that the
user-interface should hide the underlying coding specifics.

Ideally, the URL should be a short meaningful string that will help
the user access the page he wants to. The URL is not necessarily the
location of the file, complete with the folder structure and
extension, and even worse, the URL should be intentionally devoid of
the GET parameters. This might not be necessary, and might even be
unavoidable at some times.

This is why there are some sites that have scripts that read the URL,
decipher it and point it to the right resource. Designing the URL is a
very important and often neglected part of web design.

However, Grinwald, for the question you have asked, in most
probability, these are simply folders on the server, or maybe virtual
folders. The file name, if not specified, defaults to index.htm,
index.php or default.asp, depending on the server setting.

so, <http://www.companyname.com/company/> might actually refer to
<http://www.companyname.com/company/index.htm>.

HTH,
Rakesh Pai


On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:25:48 -0300, Flavio Gomes
<flavio at economisa.com.br> wrote:
> Grinwald, Uri escreveu:
> 
> 
> 
> >This might not be javascript related but I thought you might be ble to
> >point me in the right direction.
> >I was visiting a website and noticed that in the Address bar I see a
> >path with the ending of what seems to be a directory folder i.e.
> >www.companyname.com/company.
> >How come there is no extension dispalying like .html .jsp .asp ?
> >Is it because the files are labelled as index or default under that
> >folder?
> >That is what I thought until I came across these...
> >Which happen to be unde rthe same directory /company.
> >How can I achieve the same results ?
> >http://www.thindata.com/company/
> >http://www.thindata.com/company/management_profiles/
> >http://www.thindata.com/company/media_information/
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >Uri
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> 
> 
>   Most probably: Yes, that is a folder and the webserver reads some
> default file in that folder.
> 
>   But nothing would stop it from being a PHP or anyother server-side
> scripting language.. maybe the guy simply wanted to hide the extension
> for security reasons
> 
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> Flavio Gomes
> flavio at economisa.com.br
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