[Seaside] Possible OT: Strange Seaside/VW oddity -- Is there some sort of cacheing in Seaside/VW or ??

[Michel Bany]

> read(9, "GET /seaside/go/mywebapp/css/screen.css HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: 
> 10.0.1.198:8008\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 
> 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) 


Hi Rick,

URLs that start with "/seaside/go" will always take you to a Seaside page.
URLs that start with "/seaside/go/mywebapp" will always take you to a 
page of Seaside application "mywebapp".

With WebToolkit, the first token in the URL, a.k.a. "seaside" is known 
as the WebSite name. A WebSite is able to
serve static files, Smalltalk Server pages (i.e. templating) and 
servlets. In VW, Seaside runs as a WebToolkit servlet
and when the URL starts with "/seaside/go" the Seaside servlet is used. 
The Seaside servlet uses the rest of the URL,
a.k.a. "mywebapp" for dispatching to the right Seaside component.

With WebToolkit, a WebSite has a reference to a directory name on the 
hard disk. For instance, assuming a WebSite
named "seaside" is mapped to directory "C:\WebSites\Seaside", a URL like 
"/seaside/css/screen.css" will serve file
"C:\WebSites\Seaside\css\screen.css"

A WebSite can be defined in two ways.

(1) Smalltalk code, see AAADocumentation >>createWebSite
When you install vanilla SeasideForWebToolkit, this method gets executed 
and you get a standard WebSite
named "Seaside", for namespace "Seaside" pointing to 
$(VISUALWORKS)\web\examples and with "go"
set for the Seaside servlet.

(2) ini files, see the ini files in the $(VISUALWORKS)\web folder
See the documentation in $(VISUALWORKS)\doc\

HTH
Michel.