[thesite] test.evolt - urls to articles

Oliver Lineham oliver at lineham.co.nz
Tue Nov 21 15:50:04 CST 2000


At 11:40 21/11/2000 -0600, you wrote:

>most email programs wrap at 72 chars
>http://evolt.org/article/this_is_a_great_article/18/4109/index.cfm
>
>the above url is 66chars(i think) so its possible that a number of our 
>URLs could wrap.. it seems we have about 29 chars to play with in the 
>title before it wraps..

why not put it at the end?

http://evolt.org/18/4109/article/this_is_a_great_article.cfm

advantages:

- if it gets wrapped, and someone clicks on the first 72 chars only 
(lopping off the end of the title) the link will still work.

- it's shorter to tack .cfm on the end of the title, rather than /index.cfm

- if people want to save the articles to disk, they'll get a nicer filename 
(this_is_a_great_article.cfm)


are there technical reasons why it can't work this way?


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