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paulb@357 | 6 | <title>Path Design and Interpretation</title> |
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paulb@357 | 10 | <h1>Path Design and Interpretation</h1> |
paulb@357 | 11 | <p>There are various differing approaches to the problem of |
paulb@357 | 12 | interpreting |
paulb@357 | 13 | paths to resources within Web applications, but these can mostly be |
paulb@357 | 14 | divided |
paulb@357 | 15 | into three categories:</p> |
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paulb@357 | 19 | <tr> |
paulb@357 | 20 | <th>Approach</th> |
paulb@357 | 21 | <th>Examples</th> |
paulb@357 | 22 | </tr> |
paulb@357 | 23 | <tr> |
paulb@357 | 24 | <td><a href="paths-filesystem.html">Path as filesystem</a></td> |
paulb@357 | 25 | <td>WebDAV interface to a repository</td> |
paulb@357 | 26 | </tr> |
paulb@357 | 27 | <tr> |
paulb@357 | 28 | <td><a href="paths-services.html">Path as resource or service |
paulb@357 | 29 | identifier</a></td> |
paulb@357 | 30 | <td>A Web shop with very simple paths, eg. <code>/products</code>, |
paulb@357 | 31 | <code>/checkout</code>, <code>/orders</code></td> |
paulb@357 | 32 | </tr> |
paulb@357 | 33 | <tr> |
paulb@357 | 34 | <td><a href="paths-opaque.html">Path as opaque reference</a></td> |
paulb@357 | 35 | <td>An e-mail reader where the messages already have strange and |
paulb@357 | 36 | unreadable message identifiers</td> |
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