Reduce length of url for starting background process [#1331584]

To make Background Process Apache Server Status more usable, the length of the url for starting background processes needs to be reduced. This is due to fact that mod_status (ExtendedStatus) has a limit of 64 bytes per url.

Suggestions:
- /bg-start
- /bg/start
- /bg
- /background-process
- /bg-process/start
- /admin/bg/start
- /admin/bg

Comments

Comment #1

Dane Powell CreditAttribution: Dane Powell commented 9 November 2011 at 22:49

I don't know much about Background Process Apache Server Status, but I think if you're looking for a root-level URL you should go with something very unique, i.e. /bpass, to make sure it doesn't conflict with other URLS. Using /admin as a base greatly reduces the possibility of namespace conflicts, and would probably make something like /admin/bp or /admin/bgp reasonable.

I'm not sure 'start' is necessary unless there are also other possible values (e.g. stop, restart, etc...).

Comment #2

Dane Powell CreditAttribution: Dane Powell commented 9 November 2011 at 22:51

... one more thought though, usually paths under /admin are restricted to authenticated administrators only. If you're not authenticating users, it's probably not appropriate to use the /admin namespace.

Comment #3

gielfeldt CreditAttribution: gielfeldt commented 9 November 2011 at 23:09

You're right, using the /admin namespace will probably just cause me problems in the long run.

It's not necessarily a root-level URL I'm looking for, just something very short. I'm considering something with special/widely unused characters to increase chance of uniqueness, like: /bgp:start

Thanks for your input.