On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:01:20AM +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: | In apache the server would return a location header like: | | Location: http://example.com/myDirectory/ | | and then my browser would know it should ask for | http://example.com/myDirectory/my.css | | Zope doesn't seem to set the location header, so asking for | | http://example.com/myDirectory/ | http://example.com/myDirectory | | returns different results if the index_html contains relative URLs | below /myDirectory/. | | Bug or feature? Feature. If you look closely, you'll see that Apache actually issues an HTTP redirect to the resource with the trailing slash. It knows when to do this as it can look on the filesystem to see if you are referring to a directory or a file, and fix up your request accordingly. Zope, being a hierarchy of objects supporting inheritance et al, cannot make the same decisions in a consistantly reliable manner. Zac

Hi Jan-Frode, comparing Apache with Zope is like comparing apples with oranges ;) Although some objects in Zope are called "Folder" and some "Documents" or even "Files" these are all objects. if you use the URL /a/b/c you traverse a path to object c as subobject of b which is in turn subobject of a. If an object is called, its method index_html (by convention) is normally invoked. This method can (like all others) be acquired down the path, meaning, if you have one index_html as method of the root Folder object, you have it virtually on any sub-folder object unless you create a new one there which is like "overloading" a method. (see documentation on OOP) Anyway, /a/b/c is equal to /a/b/c/ in Zope. Unlike apache it does not have to redirect (which can be turned of on apache too) Just link to /a/b/c/ if it bothers you. You might want to use <link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href="<dtml-var my.css url>"> To always get the right URL. Regards Tino --On Montag, 28. Mai 2001 09:01 +0200 Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@parallab.uib.no> wrote:

Hi,

I've just noticed an annoying difference in the handling of directories in zope. If I create an directory /myDirectory, put an index_html file there, and a my.css file the index_html should use in the same directory refering to it with <link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href="my.css"> in the head of my document I get a structure that would work perfectly fine in apache, but not in zope.

/myDirectory /myDirectory/index_html /myDirectory/my.css

Accessing http://example.com/myDirectory in zope would give me the files http://example.com/myDirectory/index_html and http://example.com/my.css

In apache the server would return a location header like:

Location: http://example.com/myDirectory/

and then my browser would know it should ask for http://example.com/myDirectory/my.css

Zope doesn't seem to set the location header, so asking for

http://example.com/myDirectory/ http://example.com/myDirectory

returns different results if the index_html contains relative URLs below /myDirectory/.

Bug or feature?

-jf

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