[Bug 18410] New: Koha should use cool URIs
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 Bug ID: 18410 Summary: Koha should use cool URIs Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 - low Component: Architecture, internals, and plumbing Assignee: gmcharlt@gmail.com Reporter: pablo.bianchi@gmail.com QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org Right now Koha use a very volatile URI scheme. If we seek having not ephemeral URIs they should be completely different. Take a look to this article from 1998 of a guy called Tim Berners-Lee: "Cool URIs don't change" https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI A normal Koha URI looks like this: https://catalog.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumbe... This URI is doomed to die in the short term, is not designed thinking in long-term. We have a lot of information about the tools and technical things used to put it there, like "cgi-bin", "koha" and "pl". Is not even consistent about using always en_US (american English): "/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbooks.pl" (cataloguing != cataloging). As the article say we shouldn't forget about domain name. We could encourage the use of more permanent words like "catalog" for the host part of the FQDN. PS: This may be related to the robust RESTful URI. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 --- Comment #1 from Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> --- I have always been bothered by the fact that I can't go to a URL like https://intranet.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/ ...and get to the home page for that module. I agree that even better would be https://intranet.bywatersolutions.com/circ/ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 --- Comment #2 from Pablo AB <pablo.bianchi@gmail.com> --- This could be done with some URI rewrite (Apache mod_rewrite) directives. Someone give an example on wiki: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Linked_Data_RFC#Canonical_URL.2FURI_for... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 Marc Véron <veron@veron.ch> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |veron@veron.ch -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dcook@prosentient.com.au --- Comment #3 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- URIs are a tough one. If you really wanted non-ephemeral URLs, you'd want to use a link resolver like Handle.net to have "permanent identifiers". If/when we move to a framework like Mojolicious which has a router to map URIs to controller actions, it'll be easier to create nicer looking URIs. I don't think it would be particularly sustainable to hack this using Apache rewrite. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 --- Comment #4 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- (In reply to Pablo AB from comment #2)
This could be done with some URI rewrite (Apache mod_rewrite) directives. Someone give an example on wiki: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Linked_Data_RFC#Canonical_URL. 2FURI_for_records
I think that was the product of a conversation Magnus and I had together a long time ago. It never really took off... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 Michelle Spinney <mspinney@clamsnet.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mspinney@clamsnet.org -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18410 --- Comment #5 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- (In reply to Pablo AB from comment #0)
This URI is doomed to die in the short term
Decades later that URI is still going strong through. Hopefully we can eliminate it sometime in the next few years though... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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