Sorry, I am not so familiar with Apache and other static
servers. Please help me understand.

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 01:04:07 +0100, Eelco Hillenius wrote:

>Problems still:
>
>1. Those images would only be available through Wicket, as they are 
>components. As they are components, the HTML looks like this:
>
><img 
>src="/wicket-examples/images?component=1.image2&amp;rendering=0&amp;interface=IResourceListener"
> id ="image2">
>
>'1.image2' means component with name 'image2' of the page in the session 
>with nbr 1. The 1. changes here. And even if you have similar images, 
>they would be named different ('imageX) as they are separate components.
>'rendering=0' also changes ('rendering=n-1') to keep track of stale pages.

        I don't see why the session number should be part of the URL.
Static packed images do not depend on a session. Also, I don't
understand the rendering flag. You mention it keeps track of stale
pages but I don't understand how.

>2. Even if we built files, and did our trick of converting the 
>references to 'static' url's, we still aren't there yet as we can't 
>assume we are allowed to directly write to our webapp dir (which would 
>make our resources instantly available as a static resource). We can, as 
>Johan and you pointed out, write to a temporary directory. However, 
>putting resources in this directory will not have those resources 
>available to the webserver as static resources. So, in that case we 
>should either do extra administration on the webserver (an that's not an 
>option for a framework like this) or, we should provide a means to 
>access this, like making this a special case and handle it seperately by 
>our Wicket servlet (thus it is not a component).
>
>That could be the starting point I think.

        I don't see why the webserver cannot have access to the
tmpdir..?

Gili



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