Linking to products best practice

[mueller]

I now have an additional question on this. What is the best way to get the proper link to a product. I was using the WYSIWG editor in the admin and using the linking tool to link to a product. I noticed that the link it uses is actually in a different format than all of the above.

E.g. - product.asp?itemid=1

I am really careful about being consistent and it seems like a bit of a bad practice to have many different links to get to the exact same page.

So, how does the linking tool in the admin get it's link and is THIS the one we should be using or is it better to forgo the tool and manually use one of the formats above?

[GonzaloGil]

The linking utility outputs ASP links, we will fix this on 2.2, the ASP links will work fine however, and should you have HTML mode on, the link will then redirect to the HTML page (if you have 2.1).

[mueller]

The linking utility outputs ASP links, we will fix this on 2.2, the ASP links will work fine however, and should you have HTML mode on, the link will then redirect to the HTML page (if you have 2.1).

Thanks Gonzalo. I definitely have HTML mode on, one of the reasons I am moving to 3DC