On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Gregory Collins
This rabbit hole goes pretty deep though; if you're serious about the bondage and discipline approach you'd want to ensure that you can check query parameters; i.e. "'/foo' takes a mandatory 'bar' integer parameter on the queryString and an optional 'sort' parameter which must be either 'asc' or 'desc'", etc.
Which is not at all unreasonable, actually, if you take the approach
I sorta-kinda-did with my Ruby system at one point (using regexps
to match URIs): if the URL doesn't match the types you need for
it, you get a 404. Thus, simplifying immensely for the sake of an
example, "/user/show/1312" shows information about user 1312, but
"/user/show/13x7" returns a 404.
You still have to deal with the problem somewhere else of making
sure everything within your system generates valid URLs, though....
cjs
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Curt Sampson