Aliases
The URL of a Glasnost object usually contains its number. That's nice, but that's not a very meaningful URL.
Any Glasnost object can have a replacement URL with a unique name. This is achieved with a very simple Glasnost object which only has two attributes :
- Name : the name of the object which will appear in the URL.
- Object : the named object.
For instance, if there is an alias for article 39 with name "free-software", then, the URL of this article becomes http://domain/free-software instead of http://domain/articles/39.
Aliases' names may contain any character, but some characters have to be escaped [1].
Aliases' names may therefore not be readable in URLs. In such cases, their readable name can be found in the page which lists them [2].
[1] replaced by a code contanining a % character. This is a requirement of addressing standards.
