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mpweiher

> My contrary opinion is that the actually important feature of the web is the URL,

As others have pointed out, that's hardly a contrary opinion.

To quote Roy Fielding's Dissertation (p 109).

"Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) are both the simplest element of the Web architecture and the most important."

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding...

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> As others have pointed out, that's hardly a contrary opinion.

Opinions are almost universally contrary, despite the knowledge that the URL can be a tool. How often is it put forth that the URL is meant to be indempotent or the URL is supposed to be mapped to another routing system etc. The number of commercial sites where the URL is a field you are meant to manipulate (other than say search engines and even they don't point it out for you) is so small as to be significant.

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