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

[yuppie]

Hi!


Alexander Limi wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:04:52 -0800, Andreas Jung 
> <lists-ARtvInVfO7mgNtSmz8jCiw at public.gmane.org> 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>

<rant>
Intended or not, ACTUAL_URL was released with a specific behavior that 
is useful for and used by some people. You can't change the behavior of 
ACTUAL_URL in a non backwards compatible way just to make it more 
suitable for your use cases.
</rant>

Anyway, ACTUAL_URL supersedes VIRTUAL_URL which is only available if the 
Virtual Host Monster changed the URL. I can't think of any good reason 
to use VIRTUAL_URL instead of ACTUAL_URL.


Cheers,

	Yuppie