Redirects (Re: cvs commit: xml-forrest/src/resources/conf sitemap.xmap)

[Jeff Turner <je...@apache.org>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:23:46PM +0200, Steven Noels wrote:
> On 29/03/2003 11:36 jefft@apache.org wrote:
> 
> >jefft       2003/03/29 02:36:19
> >
> >  Modified:    src/resources/conf sitemap.xmap
> >  Log:
> >  A much simpler redirect that seems to work just as well
> 
> Funny, I have been fighting that same redirect on Friday. I was 
> installing htDig on top of a Forrest webapp site, and htDig doesn't like 
> 302 redirects - simply stops crawling. So instead, I made these 
> redirects internal to Cocoon - invisible to the outside world. Would you 
> mind me changing these to:
> 
> >         <map:match pattern="">
> >  -        <map:redirect-to uri="{request:contextPath}/index.html" />
> >  +        <map:redirect-to uri="index.html" />
> 
>              <map:redirect-to uri="cocoon:/index.html" />
> 
> >         </map:match>
> >         <map:match type="regexp" pattern="^.+/$">
> >  -          <map:redirect-to uri="{request:contextPath}/{0}/index.html"/>
> >  +          <map:redirect-to uri="index.html"/>
> 
>                <map:redirect-to uri="cocoon:/{0}/index.html" />

I think that would break static rendering of links like <link
href="community/">, which rely on the URL rewrite to know which file to
create ('community/index.html', not 'community/').

But then, I think links like this are broken at the moment anyway (worked
in 0.4).


--Jeff

> 
> >         </map:match>
> >       </map:pipeline
> 
> instead? I'm not sure about the context path, can we just drop it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> </Steven>