[Zope-dev] closed collector issues 1252 and 1308

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:36:53AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> Simon Eisenmann wrote:
> ><a tal:define="url 
> >request/VIRTUAL_URL|string:${request/SERVER_URL}${request/PATH_TRANSLATED}" 
> >tal:attributes="href string:${url}#someContent"></a>
> >
> >So having VIRTUAL_URL anytime available would help alot.
> 
> Can you have a look at the latest comment added to:
> http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1308
> 
> It appears there are a LOT of variables already available, one of which 
> may do what you want.

That would be nice, but none of them do!
Boiling down the bug reports and this thread:

absolute_url 

 - containment only, does not include contextual elements from the
   client's URL, that's the whole point of this method :-)

absolute_url(relative=1)
  - same as absolute_url, and not usable in some VHM situations.

absolute_url_path
 - is usable with VHM, but still containment only.

virtual_url_path
 - is usable with VHM, but still containment only.

getPhysicalPath
 - containment only, not compatible with VHM at all and should NEVER
   be used for URLs. 

getPhysicalRoot
 - returns the zope app root, not relevant to this discussion.

request/URLx 
 - close, but no cigar: leaves out traverse_subpath elements.

request/VIRTUAL_URL
 - includes context and traverse_subpath elements, but doesn't work 
   if a VHM is not present or is not triggered.


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Paul Winkler
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