Re: [chairs] Short URLs, NOW...PLEASE...!!!

["Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@Sun.COM>]

Also, I discovered that you really don't need anything after the 
download number, so this should work (though it's more opaque to people 
looking at it):

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/4384

	Eve

David RR Webber wrote:

> Matt,
>  
> If you make the document public you can use the shorter
> "backdoor" path:
>  
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/4384/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
>  
> Where ../committees/.. replaces the long Kavi goup path.
> 
> DW.
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Matthew MacKenzie <mailto:mattm@adobe.com>
>     *To:* Chairs OASIS <mailto:chairs@lists.oasis-open.org>
>     *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2004 9:44 AM
>     *Subject:* [chairs] Short URLs, NOW...PLEASE...!!!
> 
>     When using the OASIS document template in MS word, my Document
>     location on page one wraps because of the stupid URL path that Kavi
>     uses. Can we get an interim solution that uses Apache's rewrite
>     module to rewrite:
> 
> 
>     http://www.oasis-open.org/doc/ebxml-msg/4384/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
> 
>     to
> 
>     http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-msg/download.php/4384/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
> 
>     I would rather take a look at how Kavi stores documents in its
>     repository, and make a handler to shorten the URL, resulting in URLs
>     like:
> 
>     http://www.oasis-open.org/doc/ebxml-msg/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
> 
>     ...but the mod-rewrite solution would be quick and easy and would
>     make my document look nicer.
> 
>     ___________________________
>     Matthew MacKenzie
>     Senior Architect
>     Intelligent Documents Business Unit
>     Adobe Systems Canada Inc.
>     http://www.adobe.com/
>     506 869.0949 

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