[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All platforms I've used have a function which returns server > side paths. > The function is not called serverSidePath on all these platforms, but > it does work with both relative and absolute url.
Do those platforms have an equivalent of Webware's Contexts in which executable content sits in a completely different directory from static content? If so, how do those platforms know which URL's are handled by the framework and which are handled by the web server directly? To be more concrete, on my installation, a URL like /WebKit/MyServlet is processed by WebKit and lives in one directory tree. A URL like /MyStaticFile is never touched by WebKit and lives in a completely different directory tree. WebKit has NO WAY to know which is which because it is determined by the Apache configuration file, not by WebKit. Someone else's configuration may work completely differently. The point is, there's no way for WebKit to know. This is why I feel it's easiest for the programmer to simply write their own method that works properly for their configuration. It's only a few lines of code. I understand your patch wasn't designed to handle the general case -- but what I'm trying to tell you is there is NO WAY to handle the general case, or at least that seems to be the consensus of everyone who has weighed in on the subject. If it were possible, I agree it would be a useful feature. - Geoff ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
