[Zope] Zope URLS (was re: WebObjects)

[Rik Hoekstra]

>Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
>> Regarding wget:
>>
>> AFAICS, the problem is that traditionally in a static web server, if you
try
>> to access a URL like 'http://host/xyz' (without trailing slash), the
server
>> will return you an error '301 Moved permanently' and will point you to
the
>> new location 'http://host/xyz/'. Zope instead (if 'xyz' is a folder and
>> there's a document 'xyz/index_html') immediately returns the rendered
>> index_html if you request 'http://host/xyz'.
>>
>> Now whenever the 301 to the URL with a trailing slash happens, wget takes
>> this as a hint that this path must have been a directory, and saves the
>> result as index.html. With Zope, wget doesn't get this hint.
>>
>> Reading this again, I wonder if this qualifies as a bug in Zope, or is
there
>> a good reason for this behavior ?
>
>It's not so much a bug as a complication caused by the fact that Zope
>isn't a filesystem server, but an orb presented through the web (correct
>me if I'm slightly out ;-)
>
>For example http://host/x/y/z
>
>Could be:
>-A container object z (which should have a / after it?)
>-A dtml-document in folder /x/y/
>-The result of executing the z method on the y object in the /x/ folder.
>-The result of executing the z method on the result of executing the y
>method on the x object in the root folder.


>
>I'm sure acquisition adds some more options/confusions to this... ;-)
>
>So, that's the problem, I don't know what the solution is :(
>
>I do think there must be a better way than Zope's kludgey BASE tag
>thing.
>Maybe all Zope URLs should end in a / ?


so what is the use of the /? Couldn't all Zope URLs end without a /?


>
>Quite radical, but maybe the most sensible and least confusing? :/
>


Rik