{"id":1401,"date":"2007-02-04T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/why-you-should-be-using-disambiguated-urls\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T16:33:03","slug":"why-you-should-be-using-disambiguated-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/why-you-should-be-using-disambiguated-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Be Using Disambiguated URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2007\/Feb\/4\/urls\/\">Simon Willison<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2007\/Feb\/4\/urls\/\">\r\n<p>\r\nLinks to (and within) your site should never, ever end with index.php \/ index.html \/ default.aspx \/ any default directory index filename.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe whole point those defaults is that you can link to the containing directory to see their content, resulting in a shorter and prettier URL. If you\u2019re linking to them directly you\u2019re missing out on a golden opportunity to disambiguate your URLs.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Willison: Links to (and within) your site should never, ever end with index.php \/ index.html \/ default.aspx \/ any default directory index filename. The whole point those defaults is that you can link to the containing directory to see their content, resulting in a shorter and prettier URL. If you\u2019re linking to them directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}