[Zope] Growing URL's

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Gendler [mailto:sgendler@impossible.com]
> 
> Use absolute URLS (accessed via the absolute_url method) or 
> else make sure that
> your relative urls have the correct number of ../'s.  Since 
> acquisition will let
> you access any sibling folder as a subfolder, it is possible 
> to get deeper and
> deeper into a 'heirarchy' when you are really just accessing 
> the same folder
> every time.

Yes, this is a common new user error.  It is often manefisted by using
the wrong URLx value (like URL instead of URL1 etc).  This makes an
object, or set of objects, acquire from itself:

http://host/object/object/object/object....

or 

http://host/A/B/A/B/A/B...

Threre is nothing inheritly wrong in this, you will allways get the
correct object (and I beleive acquisition is smart enough to short
circuit an object wrapped by itself) but it is a programming error, and
eventually web servers and clients will complain about URL being too
long (there is no rfc defined standard URL 'maximum' length).

-Michel