[Zope-dev] Re: PathHandler: bug, readme.txt

[Phil Harris]

To my mind it's the browser.

This is a simple trick I use when egating the caching in IE for instance.

Stick a space on the end of the url and IE thinks it's a new one but blindly
strips them before getting the same refreshed page.

This works with any server and any page on that server btw.

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
To: "Willem Broekema" <willem@imeme.net>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 1:57 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: PathHandler: bug, readme.txt


| Willem and Zope-Dev'ers,
|
| Willem Broekema wrote:
| >
| > Hi Chris,
| >
| > PathHandler is a nice and really useful product!
|
| Thanks :-)
|
| > A question though: is it on purpose that it ignores spaces at the end of
| > the url, as in:
| >
| > http://site/ph/%20d%20  --> path_to_handle == [' d'] instead of [' d ']
| >
| > (%20 is the escape code for a space)
| >
| > Although it's really a minor minor thing, letting the user decide how to
| > deal with spaces might be a tiny improvement.
|
| Well, it's not PathHandler that's stripping spaces, so either Zope is,
| or maybe even your browser is.
| Anyone got any ideas?
|
| That said, handling of spaces and %20's in URLs isn't very well defined
| anyway, so I would avoid it if you can...
|
| > And in the README.txt file, please replace
| > <dtml-var path_to_handle> with &lt;dtml-var path_to_handle&gt; so it
| > won't be ignored in the browsers.
|
| Well, I think this is a bug with Zope. README.TXT is a text file,
| formatted so it will render nicely in structured text.
| It does this in the management interface for the PathHandler product,
| but the < and > aren't quoted properly.
| I wonder why that is?
|
| Hmmm... anyone know what happened to StructuredTextNG?
|
| Anyway, README.TXT is primarily designed as a text file, and
| &lt;dtml-var path_to_handle&gt; isn't very easy to read when viewing a
| text file ;-)
| So, I guess someone needs to fix Zope for at least one and maybe both of
| your problems to go away.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| cheers,
|
| Chris
|
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