[Zope-dev] absolute_url: why not publishable?

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:08:35PM -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> I don't know whether absolute_url should be accessible via URL, but 
> here's a way to get the same thing (almost): add a script at the root of 
> your site called "AbsoluteURL", with the body "return 
> context.absolute_url()".  Then just use 
> "http://example.com/foo/bar/AbsoluteURL" instead of 
> "http://example.com/foo/bar/absolute_url".

sure, I can do that... i'm just surprised it's not on by default.

Here's another argument:
Image.tag is callable via URL.  absolute_url is not.
Inconsistency is confusing, especially to newbies.

if I had the time, I'd go through the API Reference and
catalog methods that are callable by URL and methods that
are not, and try to make some sense of it.
I suspect it would be pretty random ;-)

For now, I think I will file a feature request & patch in the
collector.

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