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vjeux on Sept 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: URL Object Notation: A better JSON for URLs

The goal is to use it in a URL. I don't want my urls to look like that:

  http://db.mmo-champion.com/items/#eyJ1c2VyIjp7Im5hbWUiO
  iJCb2IgU21pdGgiLCJhZ2UiOjQ3LCJzZXgiOiJNIiwiZG9iIjoiNS0x
  Mi0xOTU2In0sInBhc3RpbWVzIjoNClsiZ29sZiIsIm9wZXJhIiwicG9
  rZXIiLCJyYXAiXSwiY2hpbGRyZW4iOnsiYm9iYnkiOnsiYWdlIjoxMi
  wic2V4IjoiTSJ9LA0KInNhbGx5Ijp7ImFnZSI6OCwic2V4IjoiRiJ9f
  X0

sethg on Sept 22, 2011 [–]

If you want to pack that much information into a URL, it’s going to look ugly no matter how it’s formatted.

(I assume you have some reason for not just passing a session key in the URL and keeping all the relevant state on the server.)

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