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My contention is that the URL does need to be "accessible".
It's easy to discern from the URL
(1) ...://mysite/site.nsf/products/productA
that it contains information about productA from the products section of my site.
Now we can't say that about
(2) ...://mysite/site.nsf/0/ACDCBC95B136D48580256ECB003E531F
It doesn't make any sense for URL (1) above to point to more than one document. If there is more than one page associated with productA, we might want to break it down as follows:-
...://mysite/site.nsf/products/productA/overview
...://mysite/site.nsf/products/productA/whitepaper
and so forth.
Similarly, if I knew URL (1) and wanted general information about products, then
...://mysite/site.nsf/products
might be a good guess (and therefore one the site should cater for).
What would you try given URL (2)?
My contention is that the URL does need to be "accessible".
It's easy to discern from the URL
(1) ...://mysite/site.nsf/products/productA
that it contains information about productA from the products section of my site.
Now we can't say that about
(2) ...://mysite/site.nsf/0/ACDCBC95B136D48580256ECB003E531F
It doesn't make any sense for URL (1) above to point to more than one document. If there is more than one page associated with productA, we might want to break it down as follows:-
...://mysite/site.nsf/products/productA/overview
...://mysite/site.nsf/products/productA/whitepaper
and so forth.
Similarly, if I knew URL (1) and wanted general information about products, then
...://mysite/site.nsf/products
might be a good guess (and therefore one the site should cater for).
What would you try given URL (2)?