Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, I don't know how to do what you suggest.
I believe that a redirect always causes a GET, rather than a POST, no? Also, hidden form fields are filled in on the original request, but the redirect flushes the request. All of my fields are gone! :-( Perhaps I could do something really nasty and override the Python method in urllib2 that handles HTTP redirects? Today, that code creates a new REQUEST object, throwing away the old request. I could cause it to insert some value that I would then test for, to distinguish the two cases. That would be the king of all hacks, but it might work :-} --Craeg Florent Guillaume wrote: > Craeg K Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>However, I would like to distinguish between two cases: >> >>a) Direct Navigation: e.g.I am a user and I just typed in >> >>http://acme.com/myapp/contracts/TRW-001/taskorders/TO-01/invoices/DSDC-001-9301 >> >>into my browser >> >>b) Application-Controlled: e.g. I am the application, I did some processing >>based on a button the user pressed in some form somewhere and determined >>that the next URL should be >> >>http://acme.com/myapp/contracts/TRW-001/taskorders/TO-01/invoices/DSDC-001-9301 >> >>====Now here is the issue==== >> >>In both cases above, the REQUEST object looks identical. Is there any way >>that I can distinguish a GET that is the result of a REDIRECT from one that >>is not? >> >>I would think this would be of interest to others. For example, if I move my >>web page and put a redirect from the old address, I could track how many >>people came to my web page directly versus those that are still using the >>old address and are getting redirected. > > > You could try to do a POST and distinguish that from the GET when the > user just types the URL. But it's probably better to add a special > hidden field in your form to distinguish the two. > > Florent _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )