[Zope-CMF] Re: VIRTUAL_URL and ACTUAL_URL (was Re: Collector Issues)

[Alexander Limi]

On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:04:52 -0800, Andreas Jung  
<lists at andreas-jung.com> wrote:

> AFAIK ACTUAL_URL contains the full URL *plus* the query string.  
> VIRTUAL_URL
> does not contain the query string. ACTUAL_URL was introduced on request  
> by
> the Plone developers.

Except, the implementation did not end up including the query string -  
which was the whole idea in the first place, to have ACTUAL_URL be "what  
is in the address bar right now", so things like anchors work (did you  
know there is no proper way of getting anchors to work in virtual hosting  
setups without doing three conditional tests in your template?).

When I suggested that it should be fixed, people wanted to invent  
*another* variable that included the query string, and it degenerated into  
a "what should we name it" discussion after that. So that thing still has  
to be "reinvented" in Plone, which sucks.

</rant>

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