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content  Towards Next Generation URLs  By , 20 May 2003 Rate
this: Please Sign up or sign in to vote.   For many years we
have heard about the impending death of URLs that are difficult
to type, remember and preserve. The use of URLs has actually
improved little thus far, but changes are afoot in both
development practices and Web server technology that should help
advance URLs to the next generation.  Dirty URLs  Complex, hard-
to-read URLs are often dubbed dirty URLs because they tend to be
littered with punctuation and identifiers that are at best
irrelevant to the ordinary user. URLs such as are commonplace in
today's dynamic Web. Unfortunately, dirty URLs have a variety of
troubling aspects, including:    • Dirty URLs are difficult to
type.      The length, use of punctuation, and complexity of
these URLs makes typos commonplace.    • Dirty URLs do not
promote usability.      Because dirty URLs are long and complex,
they are difficult to repeat