Comment 1 for bug 87229

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 87229] Stop prefixing every URL parameter with "field."

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:04:47AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> In Launchpad forms, putting "field." at the start of the name for every
> field in a search form makes the result URLs longer, harder to read, and
> harder to hack. It would be nice if this practice could cease, with URLs
> containing field.foo=bar being permanently redirected to equivalent
> foo=bar URLs.

At the moment this it's actually quite hard to get rid of the 'field.'
part due to limitations in Zope's form machinery. There are patches
upstream that we can pull it, though, to make it easier.

> (Fixing this would likely include removing the fix for bug 57621.)

No it won't, we still need to use prefixes in a few places. For example
on the bug page, where there is one form (with a unique prefix) for each
bug task.