to my understanding, with sendRedirect(), orion always interprets a starting
"/" as relative to the current web app. All other servers take it relative
to the default web app (= server document root).
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Freitag, 20. Oktober 2000 23:45
Subject: URL Pathing
>Ok, I've spent the last week converting an ecomerce system I developed,
>using Resin as my webserver, to allow it to run on Orion because Orion is
>the only web server that assumes a '/' means to begin the path search from
>the application context root rather than the current directory. Now I find
>that it may not always be the case. In this particular application, I pop
>up a sub window within my current browser window and from that sub window,
>redirect to another another page within the main browser window and close
>the sub-window. When I attempt to use the '/' for my starting reference,
>Orion now thinks that I'm referencing the server root directory. When I
>try to add the application context to my url, it then attempts to redirect
>my request to the application context, within the application context. Is
>this a bug? It is really confusing on how this server executes requests.
>
>Thanks,
>Andy
>
>
