[Koha-bugs] [Bug 18410] New: Koha should use cool URIs

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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 at gmail.com
          Reporter: pablo.bianchi at gmail.com
        QA Contact: testopia at 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?biblionumber=117351


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.

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