Forum OpenACS Q&A: Why Codified URLs?

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4: Why Codified URLs? (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on
The system that I'm working on is for recomendation of items from different modules of the OpenACS, something like "send this page".
So probably this is for sending it to non registered users by other registered or not users.

I was at a bootcamp this year at aD, and somebody taught me that is more secure to not show your data structure to everybody on the internet (specially sending email to unknown users), instead of use user_id (that's a real bad mistake) or key_id I would prefer to use nothing just a bunch of characters (KDJALKJDKFJJDLFKAJDKJFLKASDJLFJ) that are unique, so no hacker will be able to know how my data structured easy. Anyway, this is just another, possibly more elegant, way to do the things.