[Zope] VirtualHostMonster, PATH_INFO and absolute_url

[Itai Tavor]

Evan Simpson wrote:

>From: Itai Tavor <itai@optusnet.com.au>
>>  1. When accessing http://10.0.1.21/spam PATH_INFO is
>>  /VirtualHostBase/http/10.0.1.21:80/MySite/VirtualHostRoot/spam, which
>>  breaks any method that uses PATH_INFO (For example, the login form of
>>  LoginManager). Can this be fixed somehow?
>
>The Zope virtual hosting machinery doesn't adjust CGI variable.
>Applications should use URL0 or URLPATH0 instead of PATH_INFO.

I was thinking more along a fix at the Apache level... but it's not 
really very important, it was easy to hack PATH_INFO out of 
LoginManager and I've been planning to take it out of my own 
application anyway.


>  > 2. In this setup, if I got it right, absolute_url() for /MySite/spam
>>  should return http://10.0.1.21/spam. But it returns
>>  http://10.0.1.21/MySite/spam. Something's broken?
>
>Yep, VirtualHostMonster has a bug, now fixed in CVS.  Thanks!

Great, thanks for the fix. It's fine in Zope 2.3b3.
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