Hi,

after having a brief introduction to the (obviously really powerful and technically awesome – I love it!) DNN 7.1 Web API, being half developer, half marketing guy, I asked myself: Is there a way to get rid of the (you have to be honest – technically really) unnecessary and kind of url-wise-disgusting “/DesktopModule/” part in the API’s URL? Maybe by URL-rewriting?

I’ve been developing DNN-Modules since DNN 1.x, changed to sales and marketing later, but, from a developer’s point of view, never liked this part of the URL, even back in the days. When it comes to API-URLs, where your users and customers are actually going to see it, it gets even worse – and unnecessary questions come up from the management. So, to the core-team: Since the “/DesktopModules/” Folder has become so important to the whole platform and since “DesktopAnything” sounds old-fashioned to anyone who’s on a tablet, phone or any mobile device: Do you see any chance to rename the filepath to something “neutral” (like “DM” or “DNN” (regarding the marketing aspects)) or, even better – by URL-Rewriting – simply get rid of this part of the URL, at least for DNN-based APIs and API-calls? Maybe even introduce a new folder called “API” in parallel to the “/DesktopModules/”-Folder (- for the classically developed modules, where the user usually doesn’t see the URL?).

If there’s a way to URL-Rewrite the API-requests (I don’t see it - that's my question after all), I’d be happy to get a hint. If not so, I’d be happy, if someone at the core-team would find a way to make the API-calls more elegant to the customer/user.

Thanks for your hard work for the community,

Ben