[microformats-discuss] Some questions about rel="tag"

[Emiliano Martinez Luque]

As a side note, you can use mod_rewrite to bypass Unix file naming
conventions if you want to have space separated tags as a directory
under Linux.

For example, we use this at work (Red Hat Linux):

#Tag
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/tag/(.*)/
	RewriteRule ^(.*) /shopping/tag.php4?Tag=%1  [L]


which translates:

http://www.thethingsiwant.com/tag/star%20wars/

to:

http://www.thethingsiwant.com/shopping/tag.php4?Tag=Goth%20Lolita

Is this approach correct? well, it works :-). 
And if you think long term and how uris handle UTF-8, If you are from
China and want to display a Chinese Character on your URL you need to
use the %u convention...  I believe that eventually this will be
displayed in the browser as the appropiate character, but I have no
idea what is being done in this field by the network people.

You can do all kind of creative URL stuff with mod_rewrite.

Emiliano Martínez Luque


On 9/16/05, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Derek Slager wrote:
> 
> > By default, actually, Apache (and in fact, most other Web servers)
> > will respond differently. If "foo" is a directory under the document
> > root, Apache issues a redirect to ".*/foo/" when ".*/foo" is
> > requested.
> 
> 
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