URLs are the uniform way to locate resources

http://adam.heroku.com/past/2010/3/30/urls_are_the_uniform_way_to_locate_resources/

by sublemonic • 16 years ago

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jacquesm5• 16 years ago

Isn't this kind of obvious ?

bradgessler• 16 years ago

Yes, but sadly this often gets overlooked. database.yml in Rails is a great example of that.

catch23• 16 years ago

Though sometimes it is nice to separate things out. Back in the java jdbc days, I'd always have to look up the exact url format for database connections because oracle's url connection string would be completely different from mysql, and still different from postgres.

Legion• 16 years ago

>> "Why don’t we use this format for locating Git resources?"

Because everyone is already doing what your article is telling them to?

I'm sure there's a point to the article, but I found it strange that this call-to-action style post showed numerous examples of how this is already being followed, but only one - completely fictional - example of not following it.

jacquesm5• 16 years ago

With the number of upvotes it is getting I am wondering if I'm missing something.

There must be some amazing revelation in there somewhere.

georgieporgie• 16 years ago

All I can figure is that some portion of the young hacker crowd grew up with such ubiquity of URLs that they never reflected on the meaning of the name. Or bots.

andrewtj• 16 years ago

You and I both, especially since it's a repost http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230768

rbanffy3• 16 years ago

My two cents:

$0.01 People are upvoting based on the title and not the article itself

$0.02 It could be some knee-jerk reaction to the removal of the http:// part of URLs in Chrome. It's then a fear-driven upvote.

jrockway2• 16 years ago

I typically use "github:jrockway/foo.git", not "ssh://git@github.com/jrockway/foo.git". SSH invented its own format; it didn't reuse regular URLs. (Complicating matters, perhaps, is my .ssh/config file, which eliminates the need to specify the username and hostname in the host part.)

tedunangst• 16 years ago

ssh didn't invent that format. It's the rcp format, which is older than URLs. It's hard to reuse something a decade before it exists.

gjm11• 16 years ago

Previous HN discussion (a couple of months ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230768

hackermom• 16 years ago

To be picky, it should be "URIs are the uniform way to locate resources", not "URLs" - software, web and general computer usage today extends beyond the typical scheme format of "protocol://address", f.e. handing out a Spotify URI to someone, clickable in their IRC client, or even directly pastable in their browser's address field: spotify:track:5IsPWc2uTiVINs3Lfn8s9o

rbanffy3• 16 years ago

To be even more picky, "URIs are the uniform way to identify resources" or "URLs are the uniform way to locate resources"

URLs are the uniform way to locate resources

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