14th
January
2004
URL Dogma
“Many years ago I read a couple of articles about URI design that struck me as making perfect sense. So when I was writing the software for this web site, I had some specific goals for my URIs… Specifically I wanted two things: 1. No extensions (e.g. .aspx) or other implementation artifacts. The fact that Iím using .aspx pages internally is of no real relevance to anything, so it has no business appearing in a web browserís address bar… 2. ëHackability…”