[ckan-dev] dataset urls

Wed Apr 25 14:25:36 UTC 2012

On 25 April 2012 14:51, David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As a compromise that allows us both nice urls and permanent urls
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>> non-permanent urls as currently
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>> /dataset/my-nice-name
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>> permanent urls have an extra piece of info that would be fixed for a
>> dataset
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>> /dataset/~a4fG2
>> /dataset/~a4fG2/my-nice-name <- name bit optional and can be anything
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>> using a-z A-Z 0-9 -_ we have 64 chars so 5 letters gives us 1,073,741,824
>> combinations which should do
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>> This would allow not too ugly permanent urls.
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>> 1) Would these be acceptable?
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> +1
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>> 2) If so, where would we use which?
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> For the moment anywhere where we give out our url to a third party service
> including discus and the social stuff.   We can make the default in the url
> bar be the non permanent one, but would be nice when adding a bookmark to
> somehow force in the perminant one.

Agreed. (We could also always redirect from the less nice to the nice
one but that's for later ...)

rufus