> The behaviour of absolute_url has changed in 2.1 beta 2, relative to 2.0...

Consider three sibling folders, a, b, and c. In 2.0, <dtml-var "a.b.c.absolute_url()"> would return "http://whatever/a/b/c", but in 2.1 it just returns "http://whatever/c".

I guess the new behaviour is more consistent with it's name, but it does go against the docstring in 2.0: """Return an absolute url to the object. Note that the url will reflect the acquisition path of the object if the object has been acquired."""

Can someone confirm whether or not this change in behaviour was intended?

Yes, there was a thread on the list sometime ago about the long URLs for images, bearing upon this item. It was then marked by DC as a bug which would be fixed in 2.1 see the thread called Acquisition isn't always bandwidth and browser-cache friendly advice needed in the Zope November archives and specifically for a confirmation of the bugfix http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014027.html Rik