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A comment on Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008). Parent comment

Re:Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008) by cryptonector on Saturday May 11, 2019 @04:56PM (#19888351)
You keep a history of all the slugs, never reuse them, and have them all (but the current) redirect to the current. Done. No pesky integers in URIs.
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Re:Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008) by aflag on Saturday May 11, 2019 @07:02PM (#19888914)
It seems a very cumbersome approach (and potentially slow) just to avoid ids in the URL. Whereas, having ids in the URL is simpler and has very few drawbacks.
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