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[Neil B. <ne...@cs...>]

On Wednesday October 11, sw...@wc... wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> > Yes.. If we don't urlencode above we do need to do more work here.
> > If we are checking the prefx, would it be sensible to include that
> > into the 'protocol'. e.g.
> >    wikidiff:
> >    wikiedit:
> >    wikisearch:
> >    wikifile:
> > 
> > etc.  Which doesn't seem very elegant to me.
> > 
> > On the whole, I think I would go back to
> >    wiki:diff=url-encoded-wikiname
> > 
> > and people who choose wierd wikinames live with the consequenses.
> > 
> > Anyone else have an opinion?
> 
> Yes, I think we should leave it as an administrator configuration option;
> at the moment the default is to dynamically determine the host name.
> Admins can set the $ServerName to either the full URL or http: based on
> their needs. I think this works for all cases, the choice is not hard to
> make, and we don't have to risk introducing more bugs. Keep the details
> out of the code and in the config file.

yes....but.....

This means that RecentChanges will have absolute URLs hard coded into
it, so once the ServerName has been set for a wiki, it cannot be
easily changed.  I want to keep the detail out of the Wiki database
too.

NeilBrown