Tips to write friendly URLs

Hey,
I am trying to write a Friendly URLs by hand:
/servlet/2010/11/27
/servlet/year/2010/month/11/day/27
How to access request parameters this way?
I'm doing it right now via RegExp but is there a better way?
Thanks.

There's more to REST than just matching params dude. Forget code just for the minute and read up on the principles first.

Here's a really good article

http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/restfully-delicious.html

What you are describing is not RESTful, it's called "friendly URLs".

So what are you really asking? Do you want to create a RESTful web service? Or do you just want to be able to specify parameters in the URL rather than in a query string?

If the latter, you can grab the string using getPathInfo() and parsing it yourself.

P.S. The FrontMan 2 beta does this for you.

Yes, I mean friendly URLs not RESTful, sorry I forgot about that.
Actually that is what I'm doing, parse the string of getPathInfo().
I will correct my post subject.
Thanks.

Can you not just use String.split()?

Bear Bibeault wrote:Can you not just use String.split()?

Even better

Thanks.

John Todd wrote:

Bear Bibeault wrote:Can you not just use String.split()?

Even better
Thanks.

Hey People,

I found myself very new to this topic. Can you people give some difference between RESTful urls and user friendly urls.

Thanks

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