http://www.yourdomain.com/this/is/getti ... /the-page/
CAN be called up with just...
http://www.yourdomain.com/the-page/
could be kinda handy when giving out deep links, either verbally or when typing them out manually in email....
also note that when using "" or "/" as the page 'extension' -- it doesn't matter which is used to access the page directly.. they both work (here, anyway...):
http://www.yourdomain.com/the-page/
http://www.yourdomain.com/the-page
and here on my servers, yourdomain.com goes to www.yourdomain.com anyway (the other way around, too), so it could be even shorter:
yourdomain.com/the-page
(menus and selflinks are all "correct" (with hierarchy) on the resulting page, just like they're supposed to be)
this can eliminate confusion and errors when giving out links to your web site besides the site root.
of course, for search engines, directories, and other 'machine readable' purposes, the full and correct url should be used; as that's how cmsms builds its links when displaying selflinks and menus, and its how search engines will index content automatically. but for casual link referrals, particularly over the phone, where short and simple is best, this is pretty sweet... whether ted intended it to be this way or not.
(pretty url's enabled, mod_rewrite forced, 'default' htaccess, hierarchy on, page extension '/' or '' in this example)
