On 6/13/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:17 +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> PHP,
>
> I've implemented "friendly urls" in my PHP scripts, so that people can
> type in things like:
> http://website.com/Cats And Dogs
> ... and they'll be taken to the right page.
>
> However, when they get to the page, the url will read:
> http://website.com/Cats%20And%20Dogs
>
> Not so pretty.
>
> I've noticed that Wikipedia will alter the URI to become more readable,
> by replacing the spaces with underscores, like so:
> http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_And_Dogs
>
> I'd like to be able to do that with my system, but I can't quite figure
> out where in the process of getting a URI request and returning a page
> that the URI will get set.
>
> Can anyone help me with figuring out at what point I can gain control
> over the URI sent back, as Wikipedia does?
If you're on a linux box you can use:
wget -S "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scripting language"
... to see an example of what Wikipedia does.
But to expound... :) Wikipedia issues a 301 (permanently moved) response
header (don't tell Richard Lynch ;) thus redirecting your browser to the
underscore version.
Cheers,
Rob.
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In tandem to Robert's post regarding the 301 (or 302, to be fair
;-P) HTTP response, you should also check into Apache's mod_rewrite.
I still remember the quote by heart, but not who said it:
"Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo.
Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo."
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