Friendly urls... What's your preference?

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
[quote author="M Moeen uddin" date="1249104742"]jedd,

if there is a case in which you want to secure your content against crawlers, all you can do make it a bit difficult .. or you said obfuscate it. a site which has no such information and does not feel to that the information avaialable in any sense become abuse to server or something... what you do then?

i think its about security. Before someone hacks, we can atleast read the precautionary measures. thats my choice.[/quote]

I can't understand what position you're advocating here, sorry.

Are you suggesting that security by obscurity is a valid approach?

You can't just 'make it a bit difficult' for crawlers - you can block them. If they're sociable, you can do this with robots.txt. If they're not, then it's likely that you don't care about the dozen or so people that use unsociable search engines. And in any case you can block those just by putting in a basic authentication system.

To reiterate - confusing, ephemeral, duplicated URL's != basic authentication system.