> > However, if your web server (e.g., Apache) is set up to serve static files > directly, you don't want to re-write your outgoing static urls unless your > server knows how to map them as incoming urls.
FYI, I think that's why map_static defaults to False -- the assumption is that web2py will not be handling static file serving in production (and in most cases, static files are not full web pages whose URLs are shown in the browser address bar, with the possible exception of error pages). Anthony
