Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL?

The first technique I ever learned for linking to other perlmonks nodes from inside a post that I'm writing was to put just the node-id, together with some text to label it, inside square brackets, like this:

[44715|graff's home node]
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I gather you could also use a string representing a node title in place of the node-id (assuming someone doesn't decide to change the node's title string at some later date).

I don't recall which of the FAQ/intro/help pages at the Monastery gave me this idea (I got habituated to this a couple years ago). Having looked for it just now, I'm only seeing instructions that involve putting the "id://" prefix on the node-id.

All the links I've put in my nodes, using just the unadorned node-id, still seem to work. (That's a relief!) But now that I know more about the "id://" prefix, I'll use it. Thanks.

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Re: Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 09, 2003 at 18:58 UTC
The idea that the node ID by itself should work was added later. It will work, only so long as nobody creates a title whose name is the same as that node ID. (At least that was the case in the original implementation, that may have changed.) Therefore for posts I always use id:// just in case, someday, someone wants to play a bad joke...	[reply]
Re^3: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 09, 2003 at 22:55 UTC
A big difference is that id:// can also fetch the node's title to autolabel the link. IMO this is its main selling point. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]