Re: [Webware-discuss] uri() and action

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

Chuck Esterbrook <Chu...@ya...> wrote:
> >2. I'd rather pass my "object identifiers" and such
> >    via url-rewriting instead of a query string.
> >    How do I do this?  i.e.
> >
> >     serve?type=invoice&key=345 -> serve/invoice/345
> 
> This has been discussed before, but is not currently supported out of the 
> box. Terrel was the big champion here. See:
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~tshumway/webware/
> 
> and more specifically:
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~tshumway/webware/urldecode.html
> 
> Obviously, you'll have to do some serious work to get this happening.

Of course, there's a much easier hack that works currently.

In Webware/WebKit/Configs/Application.config set ExtraPathInfo to 1.

Then you can use request().extraURLPath() to get that extra part.
Your servlet will have to interpret it however you choose.  I use this
quite a bit.

  Ian