Michael Ströder wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:and the pathname component of an HTTP URL is also.Maybe in some of your deployments but not in general. For example some web apps have the random document or even session IDs as part of path name without having a hierachical structure.
The fact is if it's in the URL pathname then it's delimited by slashes and you can break it apart at those delimiters. Whether they actually reflect any hierarchical mapping or not is irrelevant, the point is you don't need to store the entire URL+parameters as a single key.
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