Problem with EmbperlObject files

[Neil Gunton <ne...@nilspace.com>]

Gerald,

The following problem may or may not be related to the other stuff which
we are looking at. But I have been able to reproduce it in a minimal
case. Consider the following setup:

/base.html

	[- Execute ('security.html') -]

/security.html
	
	Security

/foo/security.html

	foo/Security
	<P>
	[- Execute ('../security.html') -]

/foo/bar/

There is no security.html in /foo/bar/. If you load the root, /, you
get:
	
	Security

If you load /foo/, you get:

	foo/Security
	
	Security

This is ok. But now if you load up /foo/bar/, you get the following:

	foo/Security
	
	foo/Security
	
	Security

In other words, /foo/security.html is being executed twice for some
reason. I believe this is the minimal case for the problem, though in my
larger website it took me a while to nail it down.

Is this expected behavior? It is non-intuitive to me. It appears that
somehow the cache is getting confused because the request is for
/foo/bar/, where there is no security.html. So, Embperl goes up to the
parent directory and finds an instance of security.html there. But then,
when executing ../security.html it is somehow seeing itself again and
being repeated. Yet, this only happens once, it is not an infinite
recursion... very strange.

Any ideas most welcome.

TIA

-Neil

Re: Problem with EmbperlObject files

[Neil Gunton <ne...@nilspace.com>]

> >
> > The following problem may or may not be related to the other stuff which
> > we are looking at.
> 
> It wasn't related. It was an error in the way Embperl had handled the
> searching for the ../ case. I have fixed it in the current cvs version.
> 
> Gerald

Yes, testing the latest CVS with my little test case this seems to have
been fixed now. Great! I will go and do more extensive testing with my
real sites, but I think you nailed it.

Thanks!

-Neil

Re: Problem with EmbperlObject files

[Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>]

Neil,

>
> The following problem may or may not be related to the other stuff which
> we are looking at.

It wasn't related. It was an error in the way Embperl had handled the
searching for the ../ case. I have fixed it in the current cvs version.

Gerald

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