[Zope] URL problems

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Hawes [mailto:tim.hawes@ncmail.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 3:55 PM
> To: michel@digicool.com
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] URL problems
> 
> 
> fact that new images can not be created straight-forwardly, 
> because the
> url for a new image is skewed as thus:
> http://foo.bar.net/Zope/production/.?%3Amethod=manage_addDTMLD

>Removing the "." between "production/" and the "?" by hand works, but
this
>is simply an 'out of the question' answer for something to distribute
>enterprise wide.

A customer of ours, who uses Netscape Server throughout their system,
has run into this problem.  This is a bug in Netscape Server.  When NS
sees a the . in the URL, it barfs, and the request never even gets to
Zope.  Note that, according to the RFC, a . in a URL is perfectly legal,
therefore this is definately a NS problem.  

I hate to wax philosophic here, but this is where open source software
kicks commercial software down to expensive junk.

The easy solution is to use a standards compliant server, and not
Netscape.  Given Netscape's current market situation it may be a while
before they ever fix this.

The hard solution is to go through all of the Zope files, and change
every form action that is "." to <!--#var URL1--> and all ".."s to
<!--#var URL2-->

Note, this is not tested, and may not even work.

-Michel