Re: [Archive-access-discuss] UURI v. HandyUrl - which?

[Aaron B. <aa...@ar...>]

Erik Hetzner <eri...@uc...> writes:

> A quick question. UURI [1] is located in Heritrix Commons. HandyUrl is
> located in archive-commons. Which should I use?

Hmmm, it might depend on your needs.  AFAIK, the UURI is geared towards
Heritrix's needs, which includes a pretty light "normalization" of the
URL.  From an archival capture point of view, I think the idea is that
Heritrix shouldn't munge the URL very much.

However, HandyUrl is geared for access/playback/Wayback needs, and as
such incorporates stronger URL normalization/canonicalization.

I haven't spent much time in the code for either, the above is just my
thoughts based on informal discussions with Gordon and Brad.


Aaron