Chris Mallinson

99% of the people who visit a web site don’t care how it works, or how it was built. They don’t care if you’re using ColdFusion or PHP, and they don’t care if you’re using post or get variables. The remaining one percent comprises some techie types like me, and probably you, and some people with less than honourable intentions. For members of the latter group, you don’t WANT them to know what type of technology you use.

This is a good argument for URL rewriting, as is the fact that semantic and descriptive URLs assist in search engine ranking, and general usability. I rewriting my URLs because I like the way they look. I think a website looks much more polished when the URLs are descriptive, free of variable/value pairs, and as short possible.
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