Insanely long URL's - ARRGGHH - Heathrow Airport's website's a winner!

Im about to take some long over due leave and Im flying my wife and I to Athens. Should be great fun!

Given I have to go a bit earlier for some work first, my wife is flying a little later and she's never been to Europe. So Im making a bit of a journey map/itinerary for her so she knows what to expect and where to go. Isnt that nice of me? :)

Anyhow - Im on the Heathrow website and cutting/pasting links for maps and helpful stuff. I cut this monster out:

https://www.heathrowairport.com/portal/controller/dispatcher.jsp?CiID=bc35fb943e9f3010VgnVCM10000036821c0a____&ChID=c048aaf1ae522010VgnVCM100000147e120a____&Ct=B2C_CT_GENERAL&CtID=448c6a4c7f1b0010VgnVCM200000357e120a____&Ch=Flight+Connections+Centre&ChPath=Home%5ELHR%5EAirport+Information%5EFlying+into+Heathrow%5EConnecting+Passengers%5EHow+to+Transfer%5EFlight+Connections+Centre&ChIDPath=caf397dc2eb12010VgnVCM100000147e120a____^bde597dc2eb12010VgnVCM100000147e120a____^473797dc2eb12010VgnVCM100000147e120a____^f8454bd3e2522010VgnVCM100000147e120a____^4517b854ab522010VgnVCM100000147e120a____^7108aaf1ae522010VgnVCM100000147e120a____^c048aaf1ae522010VgnVCM100000147e120a____

Dear goodness - what is going on here? Why the insanely long URL? Yuck! And developing in JSP too...Isnt that somewhat old these days anyway? :) Netcraft says its running Apache on Solaris so you cant blame the app server. Can anyone beat it?

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  So in my previous post I talked about the appalling website URL's at Heathrow Airport . A couple of days

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2007
  They need DwarfURL http://mashable.com/2007/04/14/tinyurl-stats-dwarfurl/

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2007
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