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No kidding. Clearly they're using IIS, which has the equivalents of mod_rewrite built-in. Why would they keep using such awful URLs? The only other major compan
by lreeves 15y ago
No kidding. Clearly they're using IIS, which has the equivalents of mod_rewrite built-in. Why would they keep using such awful URLs? The only other major company still using cruft like that I can think of is IBM. Totally unnecessary.
- jonursenbach 15y agoAmazon is up there too. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW/ref=s9_hps_bw_g63_ir01?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=13KXA06CD1CPTH1KGGVJ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=801471022&pf_rd_i=14220161 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW/ref=s9_hps_bw_g6...
- mbreese 15y agoAt least with Amazon, all you need is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW Which isn't too bad...
- cpeterso 15y agoOr even: http://amazon.com/dp/B003O6G5TW http://amazon.com/dp/B003O6G5TW or: http://amzn.com/B003O6G5TW http://amzn.com/B003O6G5TW
- xtacy 15y agoGoogle too: https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/ https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/
- jonknee 15y agoThat's intentional. They'd rather not give out a bunch of Google Accounts usernames (which would also be a lot of Gmail users).
- greyfade 15y agoLuckily, everything from /ref= on is optional, and the alphanumeric code that comes after product is an actual product code. Replace it with the 9-digit ISBN for a book, and you'll get the book, for example.