RE: RE: Summary: URL rev proposals

> From: Steve Dwire [mailto:sdwire@pcsigroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:53 PM
> To: Sander Striker; François Beausoleil
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: RE: Summary: URL rev proposals
>
>
> (Posting in honor of a personal Lurker Day :-)
>
> One side-effect of the "Redirect" approach, however, is that if I
> follow a link to the PUBLIC (...?rev=... or whatever) URL in a
> web browser, the redirect will send the browser to the PRIVATE
> (.../!svn/bc/...) URL *before* I have a chance to bookmark the
> page. If other clients follow the same convention (if other
> clients even have the "bookmark" concept...), then users will
> have to make a conscious and painstaking effort to get their
> bookmarks in the format we desire. It will be much easier for
> users to do the *wrong* thing (bookmark the private format) than
> it will be for them to do the *right* thing (bookmark the public format).
> ...

IMHO, it absolutely the *right* URL to bookmark according to the relevant
specs.

I *do* like the Redirect idea to make it easier to *find* that URL for a
non-DeltaV-aware client. However, that should be a *permanent* redirect, and
the target URL really SHOULD NOT change at any time.

Julian

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