[ale] monster.com job posting.

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 8 09:21:01 EDT 2002


I don't know about asp, but PHP gives you ways to obscure the string being 
passed back so that you don't come up with obscenely long URL's. The tradeoff 
is that the link wouldn't work if you passed it off to somebody else, because 
you are relying on a session.

On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:53 am, phrostie wrote:
> ok, my turn for a stupid question.
>
> why can't these strings be made shorter?
>
> i'm not a programmer (web or otherwise), but it seems that they could just
> assign an index number using 0,1,2,,,,x,y,z and have more than enough
> combinations to accomadate all of their listings with a 30 to 40 character
> string.
>
> --- Jim <jcphil at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > The link is way too long to work in my e-mail client, but any search for
> > Linux
> > in Atlanta will pull it up.
> >
> > On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:15 am, Adrin wrote:
> > > Just thought someon may be interested. I hope the link
> > > works.
> > >
> > > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=15562670&col=&
> > > cy=US&brd=1&lid=899&fn=543%2C+6%2C+4%2C+660%2C+47%2C+559%2C+
> > > 561&jt=&q=&AVSDM=2002%2D08%2D07+09%3A51%3A00%2E000&CCD=my%2E
> > > monster%2Ecom&JSD=jobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom&HD=company%2Emon
> > > ster%2Ecom&AD=http%3A%2F%2Fjobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom%2Fjobse
> > > arch%2Easp%3Fbrd%3D1%26lid%3D899%26fn%3D543%26fn%3D6%26fn%3D
> > > 4%26fn%3D660%26fn%3D47%26fn%3D559%26fn%3D561%26jt%3D2%26q%3D
> > > %26tm%3D1d%26sq%3D&LOGO=1
> > >
> > >
> > > Adrin
> >
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