[Design] URLs for items in multiple collections

Jeffrey Harris jeffrey at osafoundation.org
Wed Jul 19 18:59:41 PDT 2006


Hi Katie,

> Well, one option is not to encode any semantic information in the url 
> (such as the collection the item is contained in or the back end server 
> the item lives on). Long lived unique id perhaps?

Hmm, I'm not sure I'm following you.  You're saying if John shares an 
item with me via email (sending me a Scooby URL), when I click on the 
URL, Scooby would somehow know on which collections John had permission 
to access an item with that UUID?

I'd been assuming when Chandler sent a sharing email, it would send a 
URL with either a universal read/write ticket for that item, or 
personalized read/write tickets for the item.  It seems like in either 
case Chandler will need to create the relevant tickets, which would only 
apply to one collection.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey


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