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Discussion of the appropriate design of URLs (e.g., for readability and hackability).

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When should I use a trailing slash in my URL?

When should a trailing slash be used in a URL? For example - should my URL look like /about-us/ or like /about-us? I am fully aware of the SEO-related issues - duplicate content and the canonical thing; I'm trying to figure out which one I should…
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Menu path in Pathauto

How do I get pathauto under Drupal 7 to generate a URL alias by the full menu path?
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What is the best place to display the language in your URL?

I have a multi-language website that makes use of pretty URLs, so called search-engine-friendly URLs. Now there are a few places to define the language in the…
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What's the best practice for URL path casing and spacing?

I want to know what is considered a good practise for casing and spacing in URL paths. Casing: Lower-case Camel case Pascal case Spacing: None Hyphen Underscore ../data/upload_data ../data/upload-data ../data/uploadData ../Data/UploadData …
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Best practice for URLs of multi-language websites

What is considered the best strategy for URLs of translated websites? Something I see happen frequently is: http://example.com/english-slug.html http://example.com/de/english-slug.html http://example.com/fr/english-slug.html This has the (minor)…
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Canonical url and localization

In my application I have localized urls that look something like this: http://examle.com/en/animals/elephant http://examle.com/nl/dieren/olifant http://examle.com/de/tiere/elefant This question is mainly for Facebook Likes, but I guess I will hit…
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Should default language of multilingual website be a part of the URL?

I have set up a multilingual website, whose default language is English and it is translated in many more languages. We have chosen for the subdirectory URL strategy, so that our URLs are like example.com/en, example.com/fr etc. Should the default…
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Should AJAX use hashtag /#!/ or not?

I've made a webpage that has the URL-form http://www.example.com/module/content It's a very dynamic webpage, actually it is a web app. To make it as responsive as possible, I want to use AJAX instead of normal page requests. This is also enabling me…
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CRUD URL Design for Browsers (not REST)

Many questions has been asked on Stack Overflow for RESTful URL design To name a few... Hierarchical URL Design: Hierarchical RESTful URL design Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and authentication: Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and…
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Why does Wikipedia use a modified percent encoding in their URL fragments?

I noticed that Wikipedia uses percent encoding for the path section of a URL, but converts the % character to . for the #fragment. For example, on the Russian 'Russia' page, the URL for section 2 (История)…
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Why does Twitter (twimg.com) use a suffix for size (e.g. ':large') instead of a query parameter

Why does Twitter (twimg.com) use a suffix for size (e.g. ':large') instead of a query parameter? Example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrhajQHXgAEQ2US.jpg:large From an architectual standpoint I find this interesting and I'm wondering if I'm missing…
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Should a Web site also be a Web resource?

Every web application - every web site - is a service. (...) The features that make a web site easy for a web surfer to use also make a web service API easy for a programmer to use. Richardson and Ruby, "RESTFul Web Services" As I intend it, a Web…
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Hierarchical RESTful urls still preferred - in terms of added overhead - over flat urls?

Let's say I have a website where users can upload and show their pictures. A RESTful url to a single picture of that user would look like: http://api.gallery.com/users/{user-id}/images/{image-id} But the image-id itself is already unique, so this…
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URL structure for multi-language site

I want to make a multi-language site, but I'm not sure what the best way is to deal with the URL structure from a SEO point of view. Some examples: Product example.com/product/123/en/product-name or example.com/product/123/product-name/en Or…
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Hierarchical vs. flat URL

I have a resource structure like flight > seat > reservation, so a reservation belongs to a certain seat which belongs to a certain flight: http://example.com/jdf_3prGPS4/1/jMBDy46PbNc ----------- - ----------- …
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