[Slashcode-development] determining section

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

What's the precident for determining a user's section?

If I hit somesite.com, generally you'd do something like this:

my $section = $reader->getSection($form->{section});

and you'd get section='index', for the most part.

And if a site has sections setup that have their own tld, then if you hit 

mysection.somesite.com 

you'd get the section  'mysection'.

Yet, if you specify on the command line 

mysection.somesite.com?section=othersection

then the section's actually set to 'othersection'.

(see it in action: http://ask.slashdot.org/?section=science )

So therefore, anytime the section is specified via a http query param it takes 
precidence?

I still don't understand where $user->{currentSection} and $user->{mode} come 
in, but that may not relate directly to this msg.

If this is the case, where specifying ?section=blah overrides, why do we let 
it override? It doesn't seem like we should let it override, ever. So what am 
I overlooking?

Thanks,
 Shane