Re: [Phpwiki-talk] path_info vs. query_args

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

>Jeff wrote:
> > o Pagenames moved to PATH_INFO rather than in QUERY_ARGS.
>
>just to be sure I understand what you're talking about:

Yes, I think you've got the idea.

>It is a reasonable suggestion, but it means that
>phpwiki would no longer run "out of the box". This kind of setup
>requires changes to the web server's config. This is not possible
>everywhere.

I envision URLs like 

  http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/1.1.6/index.php3/PhpWikiBrainstorm
  http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/1.1.6/index.php3/PhpWikiBrainstorm?edit

I think these will work anywhere without server reconfiguration.

Getting

  http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/1.1.6/PhpWikiBrainstorm

to work would be slick, but does take hacking on the server configuration.
Easy enough for individual users to do if they want.

>The only difference might be for spiders scanning the web (e.g.
>search engines). Some of them ignore anything after "?" and would only 
>index the main page and nothing else.

Yes. 

Which brings to mind another point: we should probably emit
the Last-Modified: and Cache-Control: HTTP headers (and possibly check the
If-Modified-Since: and If-None-Match: request headers).

(i.e. for cache control purposes, browsed pages should appear to be
static pages.)

I once figured out the correct way to handle these (for
http://www.dairiki.org/tides/) , and could probably sort it out again pretty
quickly.

>Any other reason?

It makes more logical sense: the URL for each page looks like a URL for a page.
URLs for operations on a page look like URLs for operations on a page.

Also (I think) it would make it easy to create static 'snapshots' of a
Wiki using a web mirroring tool like wget.

Jeff