Re: [cgiapp] CGI::App::Dispatch urls

[Bruce McKenzie <suppressed>]

I wish I'd thought of adding a <BASE> tag to the template before I 
clicked "send" on that last post. Arrgh. Anyway, that is the simple 
solution.

Bruce

Bruce McKenzie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to rewrite some existing apps to take advantage of the 
> convenience of CGI::Dispatch. I've run into a problem with the way 
> relative URLs are resolved.
>
> Say I want to use an app called 'cat.pl' to run the module "Contact" 
> which has a default runmode of "test".  This prints out a tt2 template 
> containing a link:
>
> "../../clients/act/act_demo.html"
>
> Now, if I call the module in the canonical way,
>     #!/usr/bin/perl
>     use Contact;
>     Contact->new->run;
>
> the browser reads the relative url correctly:
>     "http://localhost/public_html/clients/act/act_demo.html";
>
> however, if I try to "dispatch" the module with a link constructed as 
> follows:
>  "http://localhost/public_html/cgi-bin/contacts/cat.pl/contact?ID=881";
>
> the relative url in the template doesn't work -- I get:
>
>     http://localhost/public_html/cgi-bin/clients/act/act_demo.html
>
> I hope there's a really simple solution :-)
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>
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