[Zope-CMF] Re: Current action and action aliases

[Dieter Maurer]

Yuppie wrote at 2003-10-10 10:33 +0200:
 > ...
 > Actions are absolute URLs.

Are they? Most of our actions are relative URLs and many have
a query string.

 > The current page is requested by an absolute 
 > URL. So I think in theory the simplest and best solution would be to 
 > compare URLs. If they are identical, the Action is the current Action.

Not sure about this...

 > Thinking about this, I'm afraid there is a general problem with the 
 > Method Aliases implementation. REQUEST's URL, URLx and BASEx show the 
 > modified URL. Regarding default views this breaks backwards 
 > compatibility and I'm not sure what REQUEST['URL'] should show: The 
 > original URL or the URL traversed to.
 > 
 > Maybe the VHM should add a key like VIRTUAL_URL that isn't changed on 
 > traversal like URL.

There is "PATH_INFO", the unprocessed URL as requested from Zope.
It may, of course, contain the path components controlling the VHM.


Dieter