If you’re looking for this, you know why you need it. But just in case you’ve stumbled upon this and are curious, URL rewriting is useful for several reasons:
1. Accessibility: most people will rather remember a path that looks like http://www.example.com/products/shoes/12/ than http://www.example.com/index.php?category=products&type=shoes&productid=12
2. Security: granted, this is security through obscurity, but at the very least [...]