Bug#78307: URLs should be simpler

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

Package: www.debian.org
Version: 2000-11-29
Severity: wishlist

I don't like URLs like this:
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-copyright?package=mpg123
because it's rather complex for a beginner and because the '?' might
confuse the shell.  I suggest to use something like:
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-copyright/mpg123 or
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/copyright/mpg123

I know that this can be done very easily with a cgi-bin, but
unfortunately I cannot recall how at the moment.  The '/mpg123'
part is passed to get-copyright in a variable, but I don't remember
it's name ('path' or something like that perhaps).

Does anyone know the details?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com