[Pbwebgui-development] extras URL

[Leendert B. <lee...@un...>]

I'm currently experimenting with setting up WebGUI to run on two
different http servers. I use an Apache/mod_perl server for the dynamic
content (generating the pages), and thttpd (a forth-generation
Non-blocking I/O server) for serving all static content (uploads and
extras).
I was very pleased with the way WebGUI supports the configuration of the
extras and uploads URL, this makes setting up a config like mine quite
easy.
I encountered a problem though with some of the javascript that is in
the extras directory and is used in functionality such as the HTML
editors. The extras-url must be different from the site-url because it
is served by a different http-server. It's also possible to use the same
url, but on a different port. This results in the HTML-editor javascript
to be served from a different domain than the website in which the edit
form is present. This causes a javascript security exception, so the
editor will NOT work.

To conclude: as long as the default javascripts that come with WebGUI
are approached from the extrasURL that is configured in the config-file,
you can't serve the extras folder from another server.
Solution: seperate the javascript that comes with WebGUI and put them in
a javascript folder that can be configured seperately from the
extras-folder and -url. It won't be a bad idea at all to join all
javascript into one folder, aside from the reasons mentioned before.

JT, what do you say about this?

-leendert