[Zope3-dev] Changing the behavior of ++skin++ namespace

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:39:59AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
| >I wonder if that has any effect on virtual hosting contexts.
| 
| Good question.
| 
| I should say that it will be allowed after a virtual host specification.
| 
| For example, it will be OK to do something like:
| 
|     http://foo.com/x/y/++vh++http:spam.com/++skin++ZopeTop/a/b
| 
| Note that the skin specification comes at the beginning of a the
| virtual path.
| 
| Also note that virtual hosts can be used to hide the skin specification.
| For example, assuming that the server rewrote:
| 
|   http://spam.com/whatever.....
| 
| to:
| 
|   http://foo.com/++skin++spam/++vh++http:spam.com/whatever.....
| 
| then you would be arranging for the spam.com virtual host to use the
| spam skin, without the ++skin++ business showing up in the part of the url 
| that
| people saw.

Great! Thats exactly what I expected to hear.

| P.S. A nice little project for someone would be to add basic URL rewriting
|      to the server so that we could do this sort of virtual hosting with
|      zope alone. I imagine that the rewrite rules would be provided via
|      ZConfig directives.

/me ponders

Sounds like a good task for a saturday evening...

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