I found issues like this as well and read the same thing. Absolute links feel very unpythonic/un-unixy and it's definitely bad practice.
>From what I understand it's a problem with the balance of maintaining backwards compatibility and the new WSGI environment. Hopefully it can be fixed in TG2. :P - Julian On Mar 15, 10:34 am, Ben Sizer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an 'admin' subcontroller off my root controller. This has an > 'index' controller. The HTML for the index contains several relative > links to other methods on the admin controller. > > Usually this page will be reached viahttp://localhost/admin/. > Unfortunately it can also be reached byhttp://localhost/admin(no > trailing slash) which means relative links break with the browser > trying to find them off the root. This can be fixed by using the > with_trailing_slash decorator, which appends the trailing slash, > meaning /admin redirects to /admin/. All well and good. > > But now you get the other problem - although /admin/ works, /admin/ > index now redirects to /admin/index/, meaning all the relative links > now look for a non-existent 'index' controller. > > Ideally I'd like to find a way to serve up the admin index page so > that it will always appear at the same level in the URL hierarchy. I > don't want it to be possible to display that (or indeed any other) > controller in more than one level of the URL hierarchy. Is this > possible? > > I would prefer not to have to change everything to using absolute > URLs. There's a hint > athttp://www.turbogears.org/2.0/docs/main/Controllers.html#subcontrolle... > that absolute URLs are preferred, but that is a shame as relative URLs > are typically shorter and easier to maintain. > > -- > Ben Sizer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
