[Zope-dev] CopySupport and cookies

[Dieter Maurer]

Seb Bacon wrote at 2006-2-2 16:54 +0000:
>Using "inside-out" virtual hosting (and other forms of URL munging) can
>make copy-and-paste break.  For example, an object a.b.c addressed as
>
> http://foo.com/magic-string/a/b/c
>
>will not be copiable because CopySupport uses BASEPATH1 as the Cookie path:
>
>> def cookie_path(request):
>>     # Return a "path" value for use in a cookie that refers
>>     # to the root of the Zope object space.
>>     return request['BASEPATH1'] or "/"
>
>is there a good reason why this can't just return "/" as the cookie path?

I do not see the problem. Can you explain it in a bit more detail?

-- 
Dieter