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Posted by Shawn Wilson on 10/12/99 11:29
Like a lot of people, I've got an online photo album, and I'm looking to add
a couple features. I've been looking at other examples for some ideas and I
came back to Flickr as it seems to be pretty popular.
I'm wondering why they did a few things and wondered if anyone out there has
some ideas on their technique.
They seem to use a directory structure instead of GET vars to acomplish
things and I was curious as to why they would do that other than simply to
avoid using GET at all.
For example, when looking at a single picture found by exploring a user's
sets, the URL seems to be this:
domain/photos/user/picid/in/set-setid/
When looking at a single picture when browsing favorites, the URL seems to
be this:
domain/photos/user/picid/
Is there some reason that one would rather that kind of a system than using
GET vars like this:
domain/page?user=user&set=setid
Is it just more elegant? Or is there a bigger reason why one might want to
do it that way?
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Shawn Wilson
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