From: Julian Fitzell <julian@...4.com>
Date: 2002-02-14T05:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: IOWA troubles (was Re: choice of HTML templating system)

Thomas Hurst wrote:
 > Can it use cookies instead?  I can't stand ugly URI's.

Well, I also hate long ugly URI's and iowa certainly could be modified 
to store the session number in a cookie.  The problem is that the rest 
of the URL is made up of data telling iowa what page to load, what 
action to do, etc...

While some of this could probably be submitted as POST data instead, the 
problem is that if the URI doesn't change then your browser thinks 
you're going to the same page again.  And if this happens you can no 
longer use the back button - as far as the browser's concerned you just 
keep refreshing the same page and the data changes each time.

So while you could shorten the URI a little it still needs to contain 
some numbers to make things work smoothly.  If you really cared about 
the URI's you could probably have a frameset with just one frame or 
something and put the iowa page in the frame.  Then browsers wouldn't 
show the URI changing, they just show the URI of the frameset - I think.

Julian

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