[Zope] Re: incredible growing urls

Thu, 15 May 2003 16:58:21 -0400

On 15 May 2003 at 21:13, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Bill Bell wrote at 2003-5-15 10:46 -0400:
>  > I have a very simple site in which the menu is generated with the 
>  > following code:
>  > 
>  > <dtml-with OSPN>
>  >   <dtml-in "objectItems(['Folder'])" sort="id">
>  >     <dtml-if expr="id[0] in '0123456789'">
>  >       <a href="&dtml-id;"><dtml-var expr="id[2:].replace('_', ' ')"></a><br/>
>  >     </dtml-if>
>  >   </dtml-in>
>  > </dtml-with>
>  > 
>  > Each time one clicks on a menu item the corresponding page is displayed. There 
>  > appears to be no non-trivial URL reference. owever, the URL grows.
> 
> You must look at the HTML source of your page (ask your browser
> for the page source).
> 
> When it does not contain complex relative URLs, then the URLs should
> not grow.
> 
> If this is wrong, please post the HTML source.

Here is the HTML.

<html>
<head>
<base 
href="http://localhost:8080/OSPN/07Organisations_in_Your_Area/01Suicide_Prevent
ion_Week/" />
<title></title>
<style>
* { font: normal 10pt Helvetica; }
</style>
</head>
<body style="background-color: lightgrey; ">
<div style="margin-left: 20px; width: 600px; ">
<div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 10px; width: 100%;
text-align: center; background-color: white; font: bold 12pt;
border: thin solid black; ">
<span></span>
<span style="font: bold 14pt; ">Suicide Prevention Week</span> - Ontario Suicide 
Prevention Network
<br /><span style="font: bold 12pt cursive; ">- Promoting Networking -</span>
</div>
<div style="margin-right: 20px; width: 30%; float: left; border: thin solid black; 
background-color: white; padding: 10px; ">
<div style="font: bold 12pt; margin-bottom: 10px; ">Welcome!</div>
<span>
<a href="01Suicide_Prevention_Week">Suicide Prevention Week</a><br/>
<a href="02Upcoming_Events">Upcoming Events</a><br/>
<a href="03News">News</a><br/>
<a href="05Give_Us_Your_News">Give Us Your News</a><br/>
<a href="06News_Received">News Received</a><br/>
<a href="07Organisations_in_Your_Area">Organisations in Your Area</a><br/>
<a href="08Suicide_Bereavement">Suicide Bereavement</a><br/>
<a href="10Provincial_Advisors">Provincial Advisors</a><br/>
<a href="20Board_of_Directors">Board of Directors</a><br/>
<a href="50Background_and_History">Background and History</a><br/>
<a href="70Membership_Information">Membership Information</a><br/>
<a href="80Participating">Participating</a><br/>
<a href="85Committees">Committees</a><br/>
<a href="87Donating">Donating</a><br/>
<a href="90Contacting_Us">Contacting Us</a><br/>
<a href="95RSS_news_feed">RSS news feed</a><br/>
<a href="99Search_this_website">Search this website</a><br/>
</span>
</div>
<span><div style="padding: 10px; overflow: auto; background: white; width: 400px; 
height: 400px; font: normal 10pt Helvetica; position: absolute; top: 90px; ">
Please feel free to download this <a href="SPWDoc">Suicide Prevention Week 
document.</a>
</div></span>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Zope seems to be supplying the <base> tag as a friendly gesture. At least, it does 
not appear in any form in my code.

What I have found, or seem to have found, is that if insert the following tag into my 
template the thing works ok.

<base href="http://localhost:8080/OSPN/" />

Dieter, thanks very much for the tip. I would never have found this unaided.

Bill