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Guiness book of record long URLs
Author: Sten Linnarsson Posted: 6/14/1999; 4:01:38 PM Topic: Guiness book of record long URLs Msg #: 7369 Prev/Next: 7368 / 7372
I wanted to send a friend the URL of a recent "special feature" in the scientific journal Nature. This is the URL. No kidding. Click on it and see for yourselves.http://www.nature.com/cgi-bin/wbsp-index.cgi?def=375a986c.def&deflist=374d43ce.def:374289de.def:3742899b.def:3732a004.def:372872f4.def:36b4e839.def:36b35541.def:36b0da16.def:36aec53c.def:36a4f0a2.def:369ec097.def:372089f1.def:3695afd1.def:367d93e8.def:367d92b8.def:367552fa.def:3714a4d4.def:370c86f2.def:366becc6.def:366a2a69.def:366142af.def:36ff20c5.def:36476bfe.def:36476b92.def:36fd5973.def:36f84c90.def:36352b7b.def:3632fd17.def:36f5ab6d.def:362b44dd.def:36ecbe9a.def:362171c2.def:36216c9c.def:36d6b37d.def:36e52ff6.def:361a3df1.def:360fca6d.def:
What were they thinking?
Why not encode the entire web page in the URL? It would be very convenient; the web server would just have to strip off the http://www.nature.com part and bounce back the rest...
It could even be done on the client side! You click on the link and your browser displays the content of the URL instead of accessing the net; it would also reduce traffic.
There would of course be a master URL (the mother of all URLs) encoding all possible paths through the entire WWW. We could burn it on a CD (no, many) and sell it as "the web".
/Sten
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