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URLs too long

Posted by alcrockett on June 12th, 2008

URLs to writeups and other resources are a little gnarly.

Example:
http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&panel=icb.pagecontent274236%3Ar%241%3Fname%3Dindepth.html%2Cicb.pagecontent274235%3Ar%241%3Fname%3Dindepth.html&pageid=icb.page118854&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent274235&state=maximize

It would be nice to see if there’s a way to “pretty-print” URLs so that they’re less than 80 columns long and easier to remember. Hopefully iSites has a built-in way to do this…otherwise implementation may involve hacking the Deployment Descriptor file, which is doable but may take some time.