[Web4lib] city swallows library website

[Leo Robert Klein]

Richard Wiggins wrote:
> Yipes!
> 
> The sad thing is there is no excuse for this.  If the path strings in the
> URL are not meaningful to humans, there is no reason for them to encode the
> information in any exapnsive form.  The CMS can create a compact string to
> serve to users. If need be, take the ugly URL and compress it as TunyURL
> would, and decode it on the fly into the language the CMS engine needs to
> understand.
> 
> Here's the URL for Mayor Daley's bio:
> 
> http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalProgramAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@2028974482.1178226253@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddklefefjjcefecelldffhdffn.0&programId=536880056&channelId=-536879036&topChannelName=Government 
> 

Exactly, it's a horror story.  I half-expect to find an entire 
Shakespeare soliloquy packed in one of those strings.

You simply can't link to anything on the site -- even for basic stuff 
like Summer Events, etc.

LEO

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