[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-checkins] SF.net SVN: mailman: [8090] trunk/mailman/Mailman

[Tokio Kikuchi]

> Hi Tokio,
> 
> I'm not so sure about this change.  It breaks the ability to access  
> the web page urls by both the wsgi path and the apache ScriptAlias  
> path at the same time.  I've tried to make sure that worked because  
> it's pretty useful for debugging.

Well, I was inclined to abolish ScriptAlias (CGI) method because of SGUI 
complexities. ;-)
> 
> I'm trying to keep the principle that all internal web page urls are  
> relative, which is why we currently try to figure out the prefix to  
> the script and then reproduce that in the cookie path (see  
> SecurityManager.py).  I've also been thinking about trying to get rid  
> of mlist.web_page_url (I don't much like hard coding that in the  
> list's data).
> 
> I understand that we'll need absolute paths in the email  
> notifications, and I've read the note about not exposing wsgi_app  
> interface to the internet.  I'm not sure I agree with the latter  
> though, and besides, I'd like us to be as flexible as possible for  
> wsgi integration.  I think we should try to find some other way to do  
> the email notification urls and keep GetScriptURL() returning  
> relative paths.
> 
Like VirtualHostMonster in Zope?

> E.g. when I try to use r8090 via the Apache ScriptAlias path, I end  
> up getting three slashes between the host and the 'mailman' prefix.

Oops, I'll try restore ScriptAlias.
> 
> - -Barry


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