Re: aliases

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 08:58, Igor Nikanov wrote:
> > You could try
> >  http://g/g = http://www.google.ru/linux
> > instead.
>
> http://g/g ????
>
> are you sure ???

Yes - I tried it with Firefox or Konqueror (don't remember which one).

> gmm, it's very strange alias :(

Yes, it is strange, but http://g.g is strange as well :)

The reason why http://g/g works but not http://g.g is the way how WWWOFFLE 
handles URLs. As far as I understand it (without rreading the source 
code), WWWOFFLE separates the URL in it's various parts which are 
described in wwwoffle.conf:

# For the purposes of this explanation a URL is considered to be made up 
of five
# parts.
#
# proto
#         The protocol that is used (e.g. 'http', 'ftp')
#
# host
#         The server hostname (e.g. 'www.gedanken.demon.co.uk').
#
# port
#         The port number on the host (e.g. default of 80 for HTTP).
#
# path
#         The pathname on the host (e.g. '/bar.html') or a directory name
#         (e.g. '/foo/').
#
# args
#         Optional arguments with the URL used for CGI scripts etc.
#         (e.g. 'search=foo').

When your browser requests the URL http://g.g there is a protocol (http) 
and a host name (g.g). As there is no path and no args, WWWOFFLE adds a 
'/' to your URL. Now the URL is http://g.g/ and afterwards WWWOFFLE 
replaces the alias part which gives the final URL  
http://www.google.ru/linux/ which is not what you want to get.

However if you use http://g/g as the alias part there is a path given and 
WWWOFFLE will not add a '/' to your URL.


Regards,
Nils