[ic] Modifying link program and links to get rid of ?s and&'s in URL

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 12:18 PM 7/6/2002 -1000, you wrote:

>Most people don't realize but most search engines won't index a page if
>it has &s or ?s in the URL.  Has anyone discovered a way to modify
>interchange so it'll use slashes instead? (and ~ instead of =)to make
>the pages browser friendly.

Here are three suggestions:

  * Generate a static version of the site (not currently working, see URL)
         http://interchange.redhat.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=419

  * Generate your own static "entry" page for submission and remove ?,&,=
         with a script (this is what I'm currently doing).

  * (Best solution, IMHO)
         - Build a complex Apache rewrite code to translate
         ?a=123&b=456 into /a/eq/123/and/b/eq/456 and back.
         - Or, mod Interchange to have an option to do the same.

Also please note:

<interchange-users guidelines>
-- Contextual quoting is preferred, i.e.

                 Quoting user1 (<user1@somedomain.redhat.com>):
                 > Some limited text that will give context.
                 >

                 Your reply.

     versus

                 Your reply, lazily put at the top.

                 Quoting user1 (<user1@somedomain.redhat.com>):
                 > The whole big blob of the previous posts, including
                 > signatures and all

         In fact, the author of the program stops following a thread
         the moment this lazy quoting method is used. He figures that
         if you can't take half a minute of your time to save multiple
         minutes of the readers time, the heck with ya.
</interchange-users guidelines>

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