In my application I have localized urls that look something like this: http://examle.com/en/animals/elephant http://examle.com/nl/dieren/olifant http://examle.com/de/tiere/elefant This question...

Why does Twitter (twimg.com) use a suffix for size (e.g. ':large') instead of a query parameter? Example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrhajQHXgAEQ2US.jpg:large From an architectual standpoint I fi...

When should a trailing slash be used in a URL? For example - should my URL look like /about-us/ or like /about-us? I am fully aware of the SEO-related issues - duplicate content and the canonical ...

What is considered the best strategy for URLs of translated websites? Something I see happen frequently is: http://example.com/english-slug.html http://example.com/de/english-slug.html http://exam...

Many questions has been asked on Stack Overflow for RESTful URL design To name a few... Hierarchical URL Design: Hierarchical RESTful URL design Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and authe...

How do I get pathauto under Drupal 7 to generate a URL alias by the full menu path?

I want to know what is considered a good practise for casing and spacing in URL paths. Casing: Lower-case Camel case Pascal case Spacing: None Hyphen Underscore ../data/upload_data ../dat...

I have set up a multilingual website, whose default language is English and it is translated in many more languages. We have chosen for the subdirectory URL strategy, so that our URLs are lik...

Every web application - every web site - is a service. (...) The features that make a web site easy for a web surfer to use also make a web service API easy for a programmer to use. Richardson and...

I've made a webpage that has the URL-form http://www.example.com/module/content It's a very dynamic webpage, actually it is a web app. To make it as responsive as possible, I want to use AJAX inst...

I noticed that Wikipedia uses percent encoding for the path section of a URL, but converts the % character to . for the #fragment. For example, on the Russian 'Russia' page, the URL for section 2 ...

Let's say I have a website where users can upload and show their pictures. A RESTful url to a single picture of that user would look like: http://api.gallery.com/users/{user-id}/images/{image-id} ...

I have a multi-language website that makes use of pretty URLs, so called search-engine-friendly URLs. Now there are a few places to define the language in the URL: www.example.com/en/articles/r...