Re: ERB: decision and conundrum

• From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
• Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:51:55 -0500
• To: ddb@criinc.com
• CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199703181751.MAA12764@nathaniel.ebt>

>I just did some tests and it appears that the fragment identifier (the text
>following the hash on the URL) is even passed to the server, at least for
>HTTP.  Thus a server does not even know that you are addressing 
>	http://www.overthere.com/this/and/that#foo
>rather than
>	http://www.overthere.com/this/and/that

Right. We looked at the problem of subdocument addressing in
DynaWeb a number of times. You cannot use fragment specifiers
in URL's if you want server-side processing. You can use:

  1) URL paramaters
  2) Query Parameters
  3) URL syntax

and that's it.

As I said a long time ago, I prefer (3), hence my proposal, though
(2) can be made to work well.
 

Received on Tuesday, 18 March 1997 12:53:20 UTC