Re: Excessive # usage in URLs

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> * Magnus Hagander (magnus(at)hagander(dot)net) wrote:
> > The point of the # is that you actually want to point to that specific
> > message in the thread. If you just pick the first message in the thread
> we
> > could exclude it, but how else would you link to a specific message?
>
> The request isn't to remove the "#" ability for the flat view entirely,
> it'd just be nice if the site didn't redirect to having the "#" when the
> message-id after the "#" is the same as the one before the "#" (iow,
> it's the first message).
>
> Eg: you go here:
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151023125233.GQ3685@tamriel.snowman.net
>
> The link to "whole thread" is:
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20151023125233(dot)GQ3685(at)tamriel(dot)snowman(dot)net
>
> But you go there and it immediately redirects to:
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20151023125233(dot)GQ3685(at)tamriel(dot)snowman(dot)net#20151023125233(dot)GQ3685@tamriel.snowman.net
>
> Which is just, well, redundant, and makes the URL longer than it needs
> to be.
>

Ok, there I agree it makes more sense. But the previous example wasn't one
of those :)

Anyway, yes, should definitely be doable. I'll stick it on my TODO list,
but I'm swamped with pgconfeu things right now so it won't be until after
that.

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