Also, I discovered that you really don't need anything after the
download number, so this should work (though it's more opaque to people
looking at it):
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/4384
Eve
David RR Webber wrote:
> Matt,
>
> If you make the document public you can use the shorter
> "backdoor" path:
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/4384/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
>
> Where ../committees/.. replaces the long Kavi goup path.
>
> DW.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Matthew MacKenzie <mailto:>
> *To:* Chairs OASIS <mailto:>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2004 9:44 AM
> *Subject:* [chairs] Short URLs, NOW...PLEASE...!!!
>
> When using the OASIS document template in MS word, my Document
> location on page one wraps because of the stupid URL path that Kavi
> uses. Can we get an interim solution that uses Apache's rewrite
> module to rewrite:
>
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/doc/ebxml-msg/4384/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
>
> to
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-msg/download.php/4384/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
>
> I would rather take a look at how Kavi stores documents in its
> repository, and make a handler to shorten the URL, resulting in URLs
> like:
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/doc/ebxml-msg/ebMSv3-Whitepaper.doc
>
> ...but the mod-rewrite solution would be quick and easy and would
> make my document look nicer.
>
> ___________________________
> Matthew MacKenzie
> Senior Architect
> Intelligent Documents Business Unit
> Adobe Systems Canada Inc.
> http://www.adobe.com/
> 506 869.0949
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