[Mailman-Developers] MM3 - Using fqdn in the exposed URLs

[Richard Wackerbarth]

Actually, the Django methodology would allow the website designer to choose any URL that she wishes.
So, Postorius should be able to set a configuration parameter to any value that the designer chooses and "core" would just be echoing it.

Richard


On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Jun 11, 2012, at 05:43 AM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> 
>> I think that we should rethink this decision and follow a "slug" approach to
>> the identification of the mailing lists in URLs. Those who choose to do so
>> can use the fqdn as their slug. But others would be able to readily change
>> the mapping without having to rewrite significant parts of the interface
>> code.
> 
> I agree that the shorter-url argument is more compelling than the
> security-by-obscurity argument.
> 
> If the mapping need only happen in one direction, then something as simple as
> hashing the mlist fqdn and taking a substring would probably be good enough.
> 
> -Barry