what are those multitude of numbers and letters in the URL?

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1. chris wick

   On 2006-08-03 02:44:27

   
   
   It’s configuring its moving data using numbers also none as a computer generated link, Google use it in their advertising programs e.g. LINK DON'T WORK! http://pagead2.googlesydiction.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=B2rneMsPRRLKbJ5Om4ALzvNyqA4-D-BuzjK-rAsCNtwHAuAIQARgBIL-ahwMoBECKFkilOVCH5dZJmAHU76ADoAHFsYH_A7IBC2ZyZXdlYnMuY29tyAEB2gEeaHR0cDovL2ZyZdlYnMuY29tLy0yMzU2NjE1ODFklQIMclgKqQL5K8yRgXu_PsgCg_9M&num=1&adurl=http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/aff/%3Faf%3DGooglefree&client=ca-dp-netster_xml Its telling the servers information like witch account to bill for the click where to send the customer to its also performs tasks that you don’t know about like its taking money of an account and moving it onto the publishers account and making Google about $0.03 richer.

2. Jonathan

   On 2006-08-02 05:10:57

   
   
   It's random shite made up by the database software that runs things like Yahoo! Answers.

3. plethebest

   On 2006-08-02 05:57:21

   
   
   This information is used to display the information you want in a database.

4. griz803

   On 2006-08-02 11:39:42

   
   
   They are the way that a browser returns data to a server so it can act upon it. The data format is determined by the code in the page you are viewing and the requests you make of it. All browsers must support these standards or you'd never be able to fill out a form, request a search topic or buy anything online. You'd also never be able to login to answer some questions or ask some questions. Data is sent to the server in these funny looking, sometimes non-sensical strings by one of two standard methods. They are called GET and POST. If I remember correctly, GET has a maximum length and POST doesn't. As you can imagine, POST is most often used where they are returning messages from things like the text boxes that say "Please describe the nature of your complaint (Max. 1600 characters)". The maximum refers to the program running on the server, not what your browser will send back! I hope that this gives you a sense of what type of things use this facility.

5. dewcoons

   On 2006-08-02 05:19:27

   
   
   It is parameters that allow the site to find information in its database. It randomly names the different records, which is why the information appears to be nonsense - it is. At least to use poor humans. Makes perfect sense to the computer.

6. cutepraveen4u

   On 2006-08-02 05:19:58

   
   
   these multitude letters are nothing but the machine codes that are found with the url due to the applet programs done in the Java.. when they prepare a webpage they use the applet programming to develope the webpage... these codes will be converted to the machine codes while they are transmitted over the internet.. for example if a website is using a number of webpages for a website, they assign a random numbers adf943kadsf9235kadsf9 like this for every page.. these multitude numbers are unique.. so every page is very distinct.. for this purpose these multitude numbers are found with the URLs

7. jmfc

   On 2006-08-02 06:20:19

   
   
   This is how the server passes variables along with the page to tell it what it should be looking for. If you look at the URL on your question page for example you will notice qid=20060802050749AA0dIoF at the end of it. This is the 'Question ID' variable (anything after the ? on a URL allows you to pass variable/value pairs, if you need more they use a & symbol for more pairs). If you look at the qid value you will see that it starts with a datestamp 2006 - year 08 - month 02 - day 05 - hour (they are probably in Cali) 07 - minute 49 - sec The rest of the value - AA0dIoF- is most likely an encrypted number that signifies which question from that sec since they have many questions submitted every second. They encrypt this so you can't just modify the URL directly to view different questions.