[Zope] Impossibly long urls

[Chris McDonough]

Use dynamically-generated absolute URLs, e.g.:

<a href="&dtml-absolute_url;/something">Foo</a>

Instead of relative ones, e.g.:

<a href="something">

This is somewhat of a FAQ, although there's no document with an A. ;-)

- C


On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 00:58, David Beech wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> Can anyone explain why my Zope apps generate loooooooooooong 
> urls?
> 
> It seems that each action (clicking a button or an href) results 
> in the target (the object being called) being appended to the 
> current url which is submitted to the server. 
> 
> I've pored over the various Zope references but nothing sticks 
> out as obvious.
> 
> I've tried specifying the path directly to a Zope object in both 
> Python scripts and dtml documents, and also used relative 
> linking where possible. The effect is always the same and apart 
> from causing the server to overwork it also leads to problems 
> with database operations.
> 
> Any help will be much appreciated.
> 
> cheers
> 
> David
> 
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