[Zope3-dev] Opera url parameter troubles

[Casey Duncan]

I see things more clearly now...  Are there any other things besides views 
this will be used for?

-Casey

On Monday 25 February 2002 02:49 pm, Jim Fulton allegedly wrote:
> Casey Duncan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 12:11 pm, Lennart Regebro allegedly wrote:
> > > I'm not still 100% sure when these parameters would occur. One thing is
> > > clear, a normal website user should never have to see such complicated
> > > URLs. I have assumed that this is mostly something that will happen in
> > > the management interface. Am I correct in that assumption?
> >
> > They would be most prevalent in web apps that use views. Since the ZMI is
> > a view of any Zope site (in Zope3)  that is why it needs it. I would
> > think any CMF-ish thing would too (Views as basically like skins).
>
> URI parameters would not show up when viewing the default view of content:
>
>   http://zyx.com/blah/splat/somecontent
>
> In addition, it is possible and will probably be common to
> create content that can only be traversed to get views. Any
> content that does not have sub-content can avoid UIR parameters:
>
>   http://zyx.com/blah/splat/somecontent/someview/
>
> In this example, we don't need to signal that info is a view, since
> our content can contain any other content.
>
> The problem only occurs when getting other than the default view
> of a folder that allows it's content to have any name, as in:
>
>
>   http://zyx.com/blah/splat/somefolder/someview;view/
>
> > Of course you could just use some other scheme (cookies, sessions, etc)
> > to specify the view or other parameters to keep the URL simple.
>
> I don't see how cookies or session parameters could be useful in signaling
> views.
>
> Jim