Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

While the main concept (Don't change your URIs!) is good, I can't agree at all with their advice on picking names, in particular the 'what to leave out' section. No subject or topic? The justification for this is flimsy at best - 'the meaning of the words might change' So what? People cope with this all the time in other media, e.g. old books. It's not too confusing. What's more confusing is a URI that has all the meaning removed…

>When you change a URI on your server, you can never completely tell who will have links to the old URI. [...] When someone follows a link and it breaks, they generally lose confidence in the owner of the server. With 2+ decades to look back on after this was written, it turns out the author was wrong about this. Web surfers often get 404 errors or invalid deep links get automatically redirected to the main landing page -- and…

It is confusing to a lot of people, but they aren't functionally interchangeable. Basically you have Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), Uniform Resource Names (URNs), and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). You also have International Resource Identifiers (IRIs), which are URIs with rules allowing for international character sets in things like host names. Every URN and URL is a URI. However, not every URI is a URN, or a URL. A URN has a specific scheme (the front part of a URI…

When Rust separated its forumses, discuss.rust-lang.org became internals.rust-lang.org and a new forum, users.rust-lang.org was created. the discuss one had a nice redirect to internals, but for some freaking reason it was deleted and all now old links are permanently broken (you can fix them manually in the url though) If someone here is running any part of the Rust infra, please consider getting this redirect back.