i, personally, will not be patching or releasing anymore Tools 1.x
stuff. but you are more than welcome to continue that branch, if you
like.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> On 9/7/2010 11:36 AM, Nathan Bubna wrote:
>> according to both the code and javadocs, that's what it is supposed to
>> do when you pass a relative url into that method. there isn't really
>> a method in Tools 1.4's LinkTool that does what you want. all
>> setAbsolute can do in 1.4 is:
>>
>> $link.absolute('/foo') -> http://host/context/foo
>> $link.absolute('foo') -> http://host/context/foo
>> $link.absolute('http://althost/foo') -> http://althost/foo
>
> That's what I'm experiencing, here. Sounds like a bug that should be
> identified, but not fixed (due to backward-compatibility). If 1.4 is
> still being supported, perhaps a "abosoluteWorks" method (or something
> similar) could be added that actually works.
>
> I haven't read the code to determine why it's broken, though.
>
> Are we still accepting patches against 1.4?
>
> For now, I've just done this:
>
> ${request.scheme}://${request.serverName}:${request.serverPort}/path/to/my/resource
>
> It gets the job done, but isn't terribly elegant.
>
> -chris
>
>
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