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| | | Author: | FigBits  | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 18:30 | | Subject: | Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 222 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
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Marc.
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| | | | | Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 18:37 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
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Marc.
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It may still not make sense for those whose username isn't the same as their
store's name
(ash_274 "Ash's Extras)
Maybe a re-direct system could be created for stores using your suggestions above,
but the ".asp" construction is pretty much required for how Bricklink is built.
I would vote YES for the latter, if it didn't require too much effort from Admin.
A shorter URL would look nicer on a business card.
-Ash
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| | | | | | | Author: | beelzibus | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 18:44 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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It may still not make sense for those whose username isn't the same as their
store's name
(ash_274 "Ash's Extras)
Maybe a re-direct system could be created for stores using your suggestions above,
but the ".asp" construction is pretty much required for how Bricklink is built.
I would vote YES for the latter, if it didn't require too much effort from Admin.
A shorter URL would look nicer on a business card.
-Ash
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I agree, a shorter easier to remember URL would be nice, again if it wasn't huge
amounts of work.
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| | | | | Author: | DadsAFOL | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 19:03 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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Great idea!
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| | | | | Author: | Bricktrain | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 19:26 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
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Marc.
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Figs and Bits, didnt someone suggest Adam and Eve used fig leaves to hide their
bits 
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| | | | | Author: | BLUSER_96384 | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 20:06 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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I vote, Yes -- but only if it doesn't cause Admin a lot of mucking about in ASP
to accomplish the task. It would be simpler and cleaner, no doubt.
Jack
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| | | | | Author: | Rolf | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 20:13 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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thats very, very simple to do, just redirect those new urls to standard store
urls. Boom done.
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| | | | | | | Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 20:16 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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thats very, very simple to do, just redirect those new urls to standard store
urls. Boom done.
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Even better (but more complicated): let sellers type what the URL should be (up
to 30 alphanumeric characters) so that we can have store names as the url instead
of our usernames
-Ash
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 21:37 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
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thats very, very simple to do, just redirect those new urls to standard store
urls. Boom done.
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Even better (but more complicated): let sellers type what the URL should be (up
to 30 alphanumeric characters) so that we can have store names as the url instead
of our usernames
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Yes. This issue is why I changed my username to match my store name. I didn't
want "fleury" in the URL, as it didn't make sense.
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Marc.
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| | | | | Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 22:19 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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Harder to implement then you think. They are 3 different methodologies
www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits runs a query against the BL database
and returns the result of your store if it exists
www.bricklink.com/FigBits designates a file folder that resides on the sites
webroot
figbits.bricklink.com points to a server location/designation
Neither of your 2 suggestions can be generated on the fly. Which means each new
store would need to be manually added to the system and name changes would have
to be handled the same way.
Bret
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| | | | | | | Author: | Rolf | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 22:37 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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Harder to implement then you think. They are 3 different methodologies
www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits runs a query against the BL database
and returns the result of your store if it exists
www.bricklink.com/FigBits designates a file folder that resides on the sites
webroot
figbits.bricklink.com points to a server location/designation
Neither of your 2 suggestions can be generated on the fly. Which means each new
store would need to be manually added to the system and name changes would have
to be handled the same way.
Bret
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Latter can be done using certain scripts to get nick from http://(nick).bricklink.com
into http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp=p=(nick).
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2011 06:49 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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Harder to implement then you think. They are 3 different methodologies
www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits runs a query against the BL database
and returns the result of your store if it exists
www.bricklink.com/FigBits designates a file folder that resides on the sites
webroot
figbits.bricklink.com points to a server location/designation
Neither of your 2 suggestions can be generated on the fly. Which means each new
store would need to be manually added to the system and name changes would have
to be handled the same way.
Bret
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Latter can be done using certain scripts to get nick from http://(nick).bricklink.com
into http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp=p=(nick).
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How do you handle the DNS issue? I have "A" records for all my server/machine
locations.
Bret
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Rolf | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2011 15:04 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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Harder to implement then you think. They are 3 different methodologies
www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits runs a query against the BL database
and returns the result of your store if it exists
www.bricklink.com/FigBits designates a file folder that resides on the sites
webroot
figbits.bricklink.com points to a server location/designation
Neither of your 2 suggestions can be generated on the fly. Which means each new
store would need to be manually added to the system and name changes would have
to be handled the same way.
Bret
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Latter can be done using certain scripts to get nick from http://(nick).bricklink.com
into http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp=p=(nick).
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How do you handle the DNS issue? I have "A" records for all my server/machine
locations.
Bret
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It's a strange server setup that intercepts those special URLs and strips out
data and redirects user to site according to the found data. I never did such
thing so I'm not too sure how it works.
Something like https://help.brinkster.com/KB/a125/how-do-i-redirect-a-domain-or-subdomain.aspx
but more general version could work. Dunno...
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2011 15:10 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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Harder to implement then you think. They are 3 different methodologies
www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits runs a query against the BL database
and returns the result of your store if it exists
www.bricklink.com/FigBits designates a file folder that resides on the sites
webroot
figbits.bricklink.com points to a server location/designation
Neither of your 2 suggestions can be generated on the fly. Which means each new
store would need to be manually added to the system and name changes would have
to be handled the same way.
Bret
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Latter can be done using certain scripts to get nick from http://(nick).bricklink.com
into http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp=p=(nick).
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How do you handle the DNS issue? I have "A" records for all my server/machine
locations.
Bret
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It's a strange server setup that intercepts those special URLs and strips out
data and redirects user to site according to the found data. I never did such
thing so I'm not too sure how it works.
Something like https://help.brinkster.com/KB/a125/how-do-i-redirect-a-domain-or-subdomain.aspx
but more general version could work. Dunno...
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That handles the DNS but still redirects to a folder. "Sub domains will be directed
to their own folder."
So there would have to be a file folder for each store. All of which exist only
has DB query result objects not files.
Cute trick for a different project I'm working on now though.
Bret
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Rolf | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2011 15:13 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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Harder to implement then you think. They are 3 different methodologies
www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits runs a query against the BL database
and returns the result of your store if it exists
www.bricklink.com/FigBits designates a file folder that resides on the sites
webroot
figbits.bricklink.com points to a server location/designation
Neither of your 2 suggestions can be generated on the fly. Which means each new
store would need to be manually added to the system and name changes would have
to be handled the same way.
Bret
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Latter can be done using certain scripts to get nick from http://(nick).bricklink.com
into http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp=p=(nick).
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How do you handle the DNS issue? I have "A" records for all my server/machine
locations.
Bret
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It's a strange server setup that intercepts those special URLs and strips out
data and redirects user to site according to the found data. I never did such
thing so I'm not too sure how it works.
Something like https://help.brinkster.com/KB/a125/how-do-i-redirect-a-domain-or-subdomain.aspx
but more general version could work. Dunno...
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That handles the DNS but still redirects to a folder. "Sub domains will be directed
to their own folder."
So there would have to be a file folder for each store. All of which exist only
has DB query result objects not files.
Cute trick for a different project I'm working on now though.
Bret
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Seems it can be done to build any kind of url. Including normal store urls.
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| | | | | Author: | Sud | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2011 09:52 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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I definetely agree with the idea, I was thinking about it...Many times people
ask me what's the address of the shop where I sell LEGO and http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Sud
doesn't seem very professional...
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| | | | | | | Author: | dial222 | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2011 10:06 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Sud writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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I definetely agree with the idea, I was thinking about it...Many times people
ask me what's the address of the shop where I sell LEGO and http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Sud
doesn't seem very professional...
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which is why mine is http://www.aharddaysbrick.com !!!
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