1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 2 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 3 <head> 4 <title>Using the Path as an Opaque Reference into an Application</title> 5 <meta name="generator" 6 content="amaya 8.1a, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" /> 7 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 8 </head> 9 <body> 10 <h1>Using the Path as an Opaque Reference into an Application</h1> 11 <p>Since many Web applications have complete control over how paths are 12 interpreted, the form of the path doesn't necessarily have to follow 13 any 14 obvious structure as far as users of your application is concerned. 15 Here's an 16 example:</p> 17 <pre>/000251923572ax-0015</pre> 18 <p>Many people would argue that such obscure references, whilst 19 perfectly 20 acceptable to machines, would make any application counter-intuitive 21 and very 22 difficult to reference. However, application developers sometimes 23 do not want people 24 "bookmarking" resources or functions within an application, and so such 25 concerns don't matter to them.</p> 26 </body> 27 </html>
