Re: [Phpwiki-talk] path_info vs. query_args

[Arno H. <aho...@in...>]

 > If changing to PATH_INFO means a Wiki cannot be indexed by a search
 > engine, I would question its worth.  

The other way around: using PATH_INFO allows URLs without "?" - and
they can be indexed then.

 > Arno, if I read the mails right, some spiders ignore everything after the
 > ? in a URL. That would mean a PhpWiki cannot be indexed since everything
 > after the index page has a question mark...

Correct.
Search for WikiEssence on google, altavista, excite.
No engine will list: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEssence
(another nice side-effect of those simple wiki pagenames: they form
excellent search terms for search engines :o)
And c2's wiki is not that unknown, is it?

[just to prove me wrong I just saw that raging.com lists a hit with
"?" when searching for recentvisitors]
So, let's say: not all major search engines support "?" links, or if
they do they don't rate such pages high.

 > therefore, switching to
 > PATH_INFO would mean a Wiki could be indexed, and that would be a Good
 > Thing since someone doing a search on "hammond organs" would find a lot of
 > the pages in Jeff's Wiki. Sound correct?

Correct.

So it seems to be a worthwile change. I suggest that we put it off,
until we had a look at Ari's code and agreed on the impending
refactoring of phpwiki.

/Arno