[Catalyst] Using URL for /search/parameters: bad idea?

[Shantanu Bhadoria]

If you are using GET params for search, your search result itself becomes identifiable as a distinct url. This kinda search result can be optimised in a lot of ways. The best way IMHO is using a reverse proxy server to cache it based on the url with a apt ttl.
-Shantanu

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will trillich <will.trillich at serensoft.com> wrote:

>When the search-screen has a dozen or more fields (client requirements),
>it's more likely that we use a POST instead of a GET. Bookmarking THAT ain't
>so easy.
>
>So instead of reiterating the original question, let me ask a related
>question:
>
>What's a good way to cache a search (so the user can page-up/page-down)? Can
>we just
>
>    $c->session( search_rs => $rs->search({%params}) )
>
>I imagine that would take up a lot of space in the session record, but maybe
>that's not much of a consideration...
>
>...or is there a straightforward way to serialize the search parameters?
>What's the consensus on this?
>
>
>On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Andrew Rodland <andrew at cleverdomain.org>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Marius Olsthoorn <olsthrn at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Consider using the query part of the URI to represent the search.
>>> Browsers are very good at bookmarking these :)
>>>
>>
>> What in the world is that supposed to mean? Are browsers *bad* at saving
>> bookmarks for other kinds of URLs?
>>
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