Shortening the URLs

When you perform a search, the resulting URL can be quite long. The URL can be shortened a bit by removing terms that do not equal anything.

For example, a general search might produce the following long URL (URL would normally be on one continuous line):

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/publications/search_get_pubs_info.php?fmYrType=fiscal_year
&fmBeginYr=2007&fmAscDesc=DESC&fmEndYr=2007&fmContributionNum=
&fmStatus=PUBLISHED&fmDiv=ALL&fmInProgStatus=ALL&fmMedia=ALL
&fmNOAASeries=ALL&fmLastname1=&fmInitials1=&fmLastname2=&fmInitials2=
&fmTitle=&fmTitleQualifier=ALL&fmCitation=&fmCitationQualifier=ALL&fmAbstract=
&fmAbstractQualifier=ALL&fmSubmit=Submit

Any term that has an equal sign (=) followed immediately by an ampersand (&) can be removed from the URL because it does not equal anything. Additionally, &fmSubmit=Submit can be removed from the end of the URL. Any term in red in the above URL can be deleted.

For example the following can be removed:

&fmContributionNum=

But do not remove the following because the term is equal to something (i.e. 2007):

&fmBeginYr=2007

The example URL would then become:

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/publications/search_get_pubs_info.php?fmYrType=fiscal_year
&fmBeginYr=2007&fmAscDesc=DESC&fmEndYr=2007 &fmStatus=PUBLISHED
&fmDiv=ALL&fmInProgStatus=ALL&fmMedia=ALL &fmNOAASeries=ALL
&fmTitleQualifier=ALL&fmCitationQualifier=ALL &fmAbstractQualifier=ALL