Re: [Webware-discuss] Old bug, HTTPRequest serverSidePath

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--> Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 12:11:37 AM, ja...@pe... wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 12:56, web...@ka... wrote:
>> Here's the old sourceforge entry. I was reminded of this when
>> reformatting and reinstalling webware. What happens now?

>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/
>> index.php?func=detail&aid=836157&group_id=4866&atid=104866

> I took a look at the code and your modified version.  With regard to
> handling absolute URLs, I guess I'm not convinced that using DOCUMENT_ROOT
> is the right thing to do.  WebKit can't really return the server side path
> of an absolute URL, since that URL may not even be handled by WebKit --
> it all depends on your adapter and webserver configuration.  And it's not
> even possible for WebKit to determine whether it will handle the URL or not,
> so returning any path at all seems to be hopelessly misleading.

> The only thing that WebKit can reliably do is produce a server side path
> relative to the request (this is taken right from the docstring of the
> method in question).  I think the right thing to do may be to disallow
> absolute paths by raising an exception. 

Well, the code works, and the functionality exists everywhere else. If
this simple functionality never makes it into Webware, I will not use
it. I cannot use a web platform which does not know where its root is.