[Zope] Impossibly long urls

[David Beech]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:54, you wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, 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.
>
> It is relative links that cause this problem. Absolute links
> don't have this behavior. Since making absolute links is so
> trivial I don't think I build sites anymore where every link
> is not absolute. object.absolute_url() will create an absolute
> url to an object in zope.

Thanks for that. You're suggestion is in keeping with Chris 
McD's also. Great minds think alike.

cheers