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Though their "/search?kind=book&title=moby-dick&shelf=american-literature" example is fundamentally different in that all filters (being URL query parameters) a

Though their "/search?kind=book&title=moby-dick&shelf=american-literature" example is fundamentally different in that all filters (being URL query parameters) are optional and can be arbitrarily combined. I didn't quite understand the point of the hierarchal "search URL" when you have the /search one implemented, and they go on to say you could implement both if you have the time and energy.

kalleboo 9y ago
The Internet Archive WayBack machine kind of has an optional filter in a traditional URL scheme - you can replace the date in a WayBack machine URL with an asterisk as a wildcard and you'll get either the only entry it can find or a list of dates https://web.archive.org/web/20000831072728/http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu:80/jln/wwdc97.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000831072728/http://charlotte.... vs https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu:80/jln/wwdc97.html https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu:...