#769: WebJournal: fix link to latest release of a specific journal category
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Reporter: jcaffaro | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: WebJournal | Version:
Keywords: |
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By default WebJournal will link to the most recent release of a journal
when the issue number and year are missing from the URL. For eg:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin
}}}
redirects to (at the time of writing this ticket):
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2011/31/News%20Articles
}}}
"New Articles" being the first category of this journal.
It was possible in the past to link to a specific category of the most
recent release of a journal by using for eg:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin///Staff%20Association
}}}
resolved then to:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2011/31/Staff%20Association
}}}
Unfortunately recent versions of Apache/mod_wsgi will collapse the
repeating slashes into something like:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/Staff%20Association
}}}
resulting in an invalid URL for the handler.
The resolving of the URL (in {{{WebInterfaceJournalPages.__call__(..)}}})
should be fixed so that it is again possible to link to the most recent
category page of a journal.
There are several ways to fix it. For eg. by using this convention:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/latest/latest/Staff%20Association
}}}
(or any other meaningful keyword instead of ''latest''. The drawback being
that the keyword is specific to a language...) or using spaces that might
not be collapsed by Apache/mod_wsgi:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/ / /Staff%20Association
}}}
or adapting the URL handler so that it recognizes when a category is given
instead of year:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2011/31/Staff%20Association
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/Staff%20Association
}}}
(making it impossible to use categories that look like years) or having a
totally different handler, similar to the legacy WebJournal URLs:
{{{
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/?categ=Staff%20Association
}}}
(not that nice, but would be ok as long as the legacy URLs are not broken)
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