I guess that's not technically a redirect -- it's actually copying the other page and delivering the copy. What do you mean it's no longer connected to the session? The difficulty with copying a web page and delivering the copy is that it might contain some relative URL references (links as well as static resources) that will no longer work when being delivered from your server. You would have to rewrite the URLs to make them absolute (including URLs within any static files linked in the page) and/or copy the static resources to your own server. I'm assuming the other URL isn't another web2py app that you control, right?
Anyway, Massimo just released Plasmid, which does exactly this (clones an external page, converts relative to absolute references): https://github.com/mdipierro/Plasmid. You might be able to make use of that. Anthony On Monday, December 12, 2011 5:10:40 PM UTC-5, peter wrote: > > If I have a function as follows in default.py > > > def test(): > redirect("url of some web page") > > Then > > app/default/test does open up the web page as if it was entered in the > url bar of the browser. > > If the function is > > def test(): > import urllib > url="url of some web page" > f = urllib.urlopen(url) > s = f.read() > return s > > Then it does kind of redirect, but it is no longer connected to the > session, and the defaults in the html are no longer correct. > > Is it possible to alter the routine above to have the same > functionality as redirect? > > The reason I want to be able to do this is that I want to edit s. So I > want to do a redirect, but with slightly edited html. > > Any ideas > Thanks > Peter > > >
