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Get ready for everything to be a redirect. mysite.com/aZdi instead of mysite.com/invitation/?uid=1234

• nwienert 3y ago
  In the end most of these have to end up at some sort of public URL. Only truly closed platforms like FB could really work around this, but anything that ultimately has a public URL will be pretty easy to find.
  • indymike 3y ago
    Not really, any website can implement a url scheme that makes url params unneeded. You see this all the time with SEO friendly stuff where mysite.com/cool-product/details is displaying the same thing that mysite.com/product/?product_id=124&view=detail It's extra work, but it's not hard.
    • nwienert 3y ago
      i think you missed my point though, even with that it still stands
• Xenoamorphous 3y ago
  Well Safari could remove the parameters on the fly before performing the redirect I guess?
  • indymike 3y ago
    Maybe. For the past few years I've had the pattern of making is so we can permalinks that carry all the parameters in the database... so if you click on https://mysite.com/uDFOD https://mysite.com/uDFOD it might display the same thing that https://mysite.com/products/really-cool-product/?lotsa=parameters&on=this+url&because=reasons&totally_blatant_user_id=someuser https://mysite.com/products/really-cool-product/?lotsa=param... whould, but there is nothing in the url that needs to be displayed. If your web app is hosting the redirect, you can just skip to C and respond with the correct body to the redirect url.