On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Amy Roh wrote:
> > I've been reviewing the new Server Side Include functionality that Bip
> > Thelin contributed, and comparing it to the NCSA docs at:
> >
> > http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/includes.html
> >
> > One place where our current behavior appears to vary from the
> > documentation is on whether virtual paths are relative to the current web
> > application or to the server's root. Right now, SsiInvokerServlet seems
> > to do the former in all cases, where the documentation implies the latter.
>
> I believe this is a bug. I will work on this.
>
> > While a context-relative path would make a lot more sense in a web-app
> > environment, I'm concerned that this might cause compatibility problems
> > for users converting existing applications. Maybe we should provide a
> > configuration parameter to select which behavior the user wants?
>
> We can provide this option since this kind of makes sense in a web-app
> environment. However, I think the default way should be relative to the
> server's root following NCSA. What do you think?
>
+1 on defaulting to NCSA rules, but I'd really like to see a configurable
option that virtual paths can be webapp-relative.
> Amy
>
> > Craig
> >
> >
>
>
Craig
