Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Junk in URLs and link-rot

Author:Wesley Felter
Posted:3/9/1999; 12:36:37 PM
Topic:Unique vs. Generic URLs
Msg #:3849 (In response to 3834)
Prev/Next:3848 / 3850

Hmmm, an interesting solution, although it's totally the opposite one that I'd prefer. If a server is broken (or hard to use, which is the same thing), fix the server.

The Web has lots of provisions for smart servers, but most of the people who make servers seem to be lazy and they don't support the smart features or they hide them. The result is that many people make the assumption that you can't rely on any Web server to be configured correctly, or even to be configurable at all. The result of this assumption was the piling on of more and more unnecessary features into browsers.

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