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I clicked on a plugin on the main page. The URL of the page that loaded was something like: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/MainPage.jsp?form1:center_container:page_border:fixed_contentarea:fixed_contextbox:left_col:main_area1:topPluginsPanel:recentlyAddedPanel:j_id6_submittedField=form1:center_container:page_border:fixed_contentarea:fixed_contextbox:left_col:main_area1:topPluginsPanel:recentlyAddedPanel:j_id6# I would have expected something nicer, perhaps in the REST style, like: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugins/42 Note this is related to issue 97111. If we want to allow people to link to plugins, having reasonably-looking URLs should be a goal.
While looking for a Firefox add-on I came across Mozilla's plugin portal. Their links are like: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/ Similar simple links should be a must for our portal. Changing to defect.
Changing to an enhancement. Users now have a direct link to a plugin so the "ugly" URL has no bearing on any functional deficiency.
Most of the URLs are now "GET" style.
Thanks. But FWIW, http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=42 is still quite uglier than what I suggested in desc1, i.e., http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugins/42 .