[Seaside] URL problems

Jimmie Houchin j.squeak at cyberhaus.us
Sat Dec 8 15:40:42 UTC 2007


Hello All,

I know, I know, we've been around this mountain. :)

But I just wanted to post about an issue with the Seaside URL handling.

I don't know if this is the way Seaside is supposed to work or if there
is a different way which works the way I and I believe most people expect.

I am reading the tutorial at:

http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial

I open up each chapter in its own tab in Firefox. Due to Firefox's
ability to resume sessions and whatever reason I had to shut down my
laptop. That window with all its tabs were shut down and then later resumed.

But the problem is that when the window and its tabs resumed every
single tab was identical. Yuck!!!

Tabs like these:
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?1&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?2&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?3&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?4&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?5&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?6&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?7&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?8&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?9&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?10&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/seaside/tutorial?11&_k=bveMvOxz&_s=MvWvDTBHoWiSRmFs

became:
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
...

I wanted the pages with each individual chapter. Not the front page or
entry point to the tutorial. I don't want to have to repeat the process
every single time something like this occurs. This is counter to most
all other experience on the web.

Is this simple wrong tool for the job? ie: the tutorial site isn't
really a web app, which is what Seaside is for?
Or is there a better way for the tutorial site to handle the chapters?

This isn't an attempt to reform Seaside's URL handling. Just trying to
understand the situation fully.

Thanks.

Jimmie


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