On Oct 9, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Cantin Benoit wrote:

Dear WO users,

I am dealing with my applications URL length. For different reasons, it can't be longer than 100 characters. So I am wondering how to shorten my URLs but :
- without using Apache rewrite_mod ;
- and without modifying my Direct Actions names.

Those are some severe restrictions.

Is there a way to remove /cgi-bin/WebObjects/my_app_name.woa from WebObjects applications default URL with these constraints ?

You can't remove all of it. You can shorten /cgi-bin/ and / my_app_name.woa to something like
/w/WebObjects/a.woa


I have read that you can change cgi-bin in /System/Library/ WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache/apache.conf, but that you can't remove / WebObjects/. Is that true ? Are there any other ways to do it ?

You can do it, but you need to edit the adaptor source to do so. That might be more effort than it is worth to get rid of 9 characters.
        /w/o/a.woa
You would also need to create a WOContext subclass or use some other method to generate the URLs.

Some other ideas:

1. Make aliases for direct actions:

public WOActionResults mrlnAction() {
    return myRatherLongNameAction();
}

So you can use a.woa/wa/mrln instead of a.woa/wa/myRatherLongName but both will still work

2. Use cookies to store the session ID and instance number if you are not doing this already.


Chuck


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