I was thinking about this as well. Not protecting certain resources,
by extension, may be a very good solution. It's probably easier to
implement than my idea, which is to parse CSS files and rewrite URLs.

On 12/25/05, Jesse Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm writing this message to be sure I haven't misunderstood what the
> intentions of the asset service digestion of url strings were/are before I
> go breaking them.
>
> From what I can tell the largest need for protection is that of .class files
> because the asset service exposes the inner classloader resources of the
> running jvm. This makes sense, but the protection of ALL resources this way
> also hurts some other things.
>
> I'm pondering creating a new hivemind configuration contribution that
> defines what types of resources should be protected. This could go the other
> way too, where it defines what types of resources ~shouldn't~ be protected,
> but the first seems easiest. Initially I'm thinking that only resources
> ending in .class file names will be protected.
>
> This also starts the ball rolling on fixing the other issue we have, which
> is the disconnect between the Shell component's js/css includes and those
> private assets provided by libraries/components that wish to provide them. I
> think that components should be able to auto-include their global resources
> into the Shell component somehow. Not sure how yet. It could either be a
> default that is allowed, additonally allowing hivemind configuration points
> to exclude or disallow all or specific components/libraries from
> contributing their global assets.  This hints at the IAsset class starting
> to have knowledge of types of resources, or at least a configurable string
> grouping mechanism. Guess we can figure that one out when we get to it.
>
> jesse
>
>


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