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Subject: 
Re: Interface changes coming today
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:44:12 GMT
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admin@lugnet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:

[...]
1.  Four scripts are being renamed and relocated:

       /news/compose.cgi     is becoming   /news/post/
       /news/post.cgi        is becoming   /news/post/submit.cgi
       /news/setup/          is becoming   /news/post/setup/
       /news/setup/save.cgi  is becoming   /news/post/setup/submit.cgi

    The reason for this is so that the browser cookie which stores your user
    info can match up with the /news/post/ URL tree and not the /news/ URL
    tree.  In other words, your browser will send your user-info cookie only
    when you're in a /news/post/ URL (i.e., posting) -- because it's a waste
    of bandwidth to have it send that info for pages you access outside of
    the posting area.
[...]

I just remembered one other reason --

it looked stoopit for the /news/compose.cgi page to be displaying

   Home / News / Post

near the top.

Not the "Post" in place of "compose.cgi" so much as the fact that 'post'
wasn't its own directory under /news/.

At some point display.cgi and thread.cgi will (probably) move to better
names too.

--Todd



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