[Zope-dev] Re: Eliminating forced HEAD/TITLE/BASE HREF - followup

Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:21:10 -0500

I didn't see Jim Fulton's response until after posting my own workaround to
the previous Digest.

I am using Zope 2.1.0 beta 2 on FreeBSD 3.0, and it works great.

Jim wrote:
> If I create a page (in 2.1) I don't get them.

When I read this I went back and tried to find out when it does and doesn't
happen.

If I create a new DTML Method called 'junk', the entire source of which is

	Hello world!

i.e., no DTML tags or HTML tags or anything, just that string... then the
HTTP output from ZServer (after the headers) is exactly as Jim describes: my
source string sent back to me, with no embellishments.

	telnet my.machine 8080
	GET /junk HTTP/1.0
	HTTP/1.0 200 OK
	Server: Zope/Zope 2.1.0b2 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2)
ZServer/1.1b1
	Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 17:00:19 GMT
	Connection: close
	Content-Type: text/plain
	Content-Length: 12

	Hello world!Connection closed by foreign host.

However, if I go back and change the source for 'junk' to read

	<B>Hello world!</B>

then lo and behold, look what ZServer sends me:

	[earlier headers the same]
	Content-Length: 39

	<html><head></head>
	<B>Hello world!</B>Connection closed by foreign host.

In other words, if there is any apparent HTML in there, someone is deciding
it needs some decent tags so the kids at school don't laugh. :)

I think the <base href> tag is added if, in addition, your method is
"index_html." I do not have the time today to research this very
exhaustively.