Re: add query string to redirect.internal?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:46:44 -0400, "Philip Semanchuk"
<[email protected]> said:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to use Spyce's redirect.internal to do some URL rewriting. I'd 
> like to take a URL like this:
> http://example.com/rabbit.spy
> and redirect that to:
> http://example.com/grenade.spy?type=holy
> 
> I can redirect to grenade.spy with no problem by populating rabbit.spy 
> with this:
> [[.import name=redirect]]
> [[redirect.internal('/grenade.spy')]]
> 
> But if I try to include a query string on the target URI, I get a 404 
> because Spyce treats the query string as part of the target filename. 
> In other words, even though the URL 
> "http://example.com/grenade.spy?type=holy" works when typed directly 
> into the browser, trying to redirect.internal to it gives me "404: 
> grenade.spy?type=holy not found" --
> [[redirect.internal('/grenade.spy?type=holy')]]
> 
> I guess this is because Spyce already has a request object constructed 
> and that request object has a blank query string. Is it possible to 
> modify the request object before the redirect?
> 
> I tried to search the sourceforge archive but ATM trying to look at any 
> messages returns a 500 Internal server error. :-/

Hmm, yeah, this has been a limitation forever.  Thinking about it though
all, the other frameworks I can think of don't create a new request
either when you say "run this other script instead."  So I'd be inclined
to call it a "feature." :)

IMO the "right" way to do this feature is as something handled by
spyceWWW.  (As an added bonus, it wouldn't need to delve into the Spyce
guts much.)  A regexp-based system like django's would be pretty easy to
add.  The port of Routes to Python done by the Pylon guys might also be
feasible (and IMO is a friendlier interface to use), although its
assumption of a controller-based architecture would probably require
some coding to work around.

-Jonathan

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