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No one thinks twice about using links for images. You wouldn't make an API that specified images as "image id 2345, which the client can find at /images/{id}"



I would and have…. If you’re in a position to specify that images can consistently be identified by a small key, that’s nice and simple. Go for it.


Key of 10 symbols from (latin alphabet + numbers) have 3656158440062976 possible combinations.


That’s a fun fact, but what does it have to do with this?




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