[Zope3-dev] No redirect!

[Stephan Richter]

On Friday 25 April 2003 17:33, Marcus J. Ertl wrote:
> How may I give back a view?
>
> What I want to do is: In dependence of a cookie, I will return a
> different page. At the moment I do something like:
>
>         self.request.response.redirect('index.html')
>
> but I don't like this! It does each time a unnecessary browser-server
> roundtrip! How may I hand back the view direct! It've tried something
> like
>
>         return getView(self.context, 'index.html')
>
> but the browser only shows some strange <security proxied ...>-text!

I totally agree with Marcus' complaint. I hate the request.response.redirect 
stuff as well. I wish I could say request.response.returnView(URL) that looks 
up the view and returns it without a redirect.

What do others think about that?

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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