Comments on: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in Zope

By: Mikko Ohtamaa

Mikko Ohtamaa — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:46:57 +0000

Ah, I so wait for WSGI compatible environ.

But meanwhile:

http://plonemanual.twinapex.fi/serving/http_request_and_response.html

By: AdamA

AdamA — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:29:15 +0000

+1 for documentation.

Thanks Martin, funnily enough this morning I need this very thing, so your comment is quite useful.

claytron, is there actually any advantage in looking up a multi adapter just to get the requested url? My current use case is in a template so that’s not really practical and seems a bit overkill for just concatenating two strings together.

It still annoys me that you have to join the two bits together with ‘?’, who votes for adding REQUEST['REQUEST_URI'] to Zope?

By: claytron

claytron — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:16:36 +0000

There are some util view classes in plone.app.layout.globals that do just this. Take a look at the context.py and you’ll see you can do the following:

p_context_state = getMultiAdapter((self.context, self.request), name=u”plone_context_state”)

# to get the actual url
p_context_state.current_base_url()

# to get the url + the query
p_context_state.current_page_url()

By: KC

KC — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:10:19 +0000

+1 for Chris Rossi

By: Martin Aspeli

Martin Aspeli — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:46:44 +0000

mmm, not quite. ACTUAL_URL does not contain a query string. For that, you have to concatenate ACTUAL_URL and QUERY_STRING. The purpose of ACTUAL_URL is to have a reliable way to get the URL the user sees, even when virtual hosting is being used.

I’d also note that it’s better to use something like self.request['ACTUAL_URL'] instead of attribute notation. Or at least, it’s in better taste.

Martin

By: Chris Rossi

Chris Rossi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:34:19 +0000

Stories like this are further evidence why Zope/Plone really, really needs comprehensive reference documentation. It’s cool that you finally found the answer via Plone’s rich oral tradition, but how much time (and money) was wasted in the meantime?