[Zope-dev] BASEPATH

[Brian Lloyd]

uh - yes, what Evan said. :^)


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
Software Engineer  540.371.6909              
Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
> Of Evan Simpson
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:51 AM
> To: Brian Lloyd; Robin Becker; zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] BASEPATH
> 
> 
> From: Brian Lloyd <brian@digicool.com>
> > BASEPATHx (and its converse URLPATHx) are analogous to the
> > current BASEx and URLx variables of the REQUEST object,
> > except that they take any fiddling of the path (such as
> > that done by SiteAccess) into account. They will be
> > introduced in the next feature release (2.3). BASEx and
> > URLx will continue to work, but will be deprecated in
> > favor of the new BASEPATHx and URLPATHx.
> 
> Whoa there! BASEPATHx and URLPATHx are the path portion of BASEx 
> and URLx respectively.  That is, if
> BASE1 == "http://www.foo.com/x/y/z" then BASEPATH1 == "/x/y/z".  
> All of these take path manipulation
> into account.
> 
> It's SCRIPT_NAME, REQUEST.script, and the various surgical 
> contortions which try to extract the path
> part of URLs that are deprecated by these newcomers.  Any place 
> SCRIPT_NAME used to appear, it
> should be replaced with BASEPATH1.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Evan @ digicool & 4-am
> 
> 
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