Re:Google wants to get rid of URLs but doesn’t know what to ...
by macintux on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:13AM
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> URLs is fantastic, solves the problem well and basically has little to no issues.
I strongly disagree. I do tend to think that they're useful and not obviously replaceable, but claiming they have no issues is dubious.
Spoofing, with or without the added level of sophisticated enabled by unicode. Special character handling (e.g. whitespace) is sometimes problematic. URL longevity is a real issue. Server-side security has been compromised in the past using "../" in URLs.
I'm sure I could come up with more, and I imagine there's a "top 10 fallacies programmers believe about URLs" list out there that would provide more examples.
I strongly disagree. I do tend to think that they're useful and not obviously replaceable, but claiming they have no issues is dubious.
Spoofing, with or without the added level of sophisticated enabled by unicode. Special character handling (e.g. whitespace) is sometimes problematic. URL longevity is a real issue. Server-side security has been compromised in the past using "../" in URLs.
I'm sure I could come up with more, and I imagine there's a "top 10 fallacies programmers believe about URLs" list out there that would provide more examples.