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Asked: 2026-05-25T14:05:05+00:00

I often find myself falling into a world in which I am not so

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I often find myself falling into a world in which I am not so sure about the URLs that I came up with. I think that’s mainly because I have a few questions regarding URL design in django that remain unanswered.

Say, I have built a public profile page for my site users. It can be accessed by providing an user id. Should the user id be part of the URL (ie. /profile/<userid>/) or should it be provided in the querystring (/profile?userid=<userid>)? And why?

I use AJAX extensively in my project. Should the AJAX URLs be designed differently from their counterparts? Is there a design pattern for this purpose?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There isn’t any hard-and-fast rule here. I’d say that anything which is reasonably static should use the /profile/<userid>/ format. GET parameters – ?userid=<userid> – should be reserved for things that are more dynamic, are just difficult to encode as part of the URL (such as a set of search terms), or when you need several parameters at once and can’t count on the order.

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