X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/444a88568acb8235b6af6d47e836be0d44934f53..b63f1260eef70cf7eb1703ebae1244db7cef0583:/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn b/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn index d00368bfb..d8040bf3e 100644 --- a/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn @@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another. * URIs in RSS feeds must be absolute, because feed readers do not have any consistent semantics for the base of relative links -* If we have a `` then the HTML spec says it must be - absolute +* If we have a `` then HTML 4.01 says it must be + absolute, although HTML 5 does relax this by defining semantics + for a relative `` - it is interpreted relative to the + "fallback base URL" which is the URL of the page being viewed ([[bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search]], [[bugs/preview_base_url_should_be_absolute]]) @@ -62,6 +64,11 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another. [[forum/Using_reverse_proxy__59___base_URL_is_http_instead_of_https]], [[forum/Dot_CGI_pointing_to_localhost._What_happened__63__]]) +* For relative links in page-previews to work correctly without + having to have global state or thread state through every use of + `htmllink` etc., `cgitemplate` needs to make links in the page body + work as if we were on the page being previewed. + # "Would be nice" * In general, the more relative the better @@ -102,3 +109,26 @@ in the setup file as http if you intend that they will most commonly be accessed via http (e.g. the "my cert is not CA-cartel approved" use-case), or as https if you intend to force accesses into being via https (the "my wiki is secret" use-case). + +# Regression test + +I've added a regression test in `t/relativity.t`. We might want to +consider dropping some of it or skipping it unless a special environment +variable is set once this is all working, since it's a bit slow. +--[[smcv]] + +# Remaining bugs + +## Arguable + +* Configure the url and cgiurl to both be https, then access the + CGI via a non-https address. The stylesheet is loaded from the http + version of the static site, but maybe it should be forced to https? + +* Configure url = "http://static.example.com/", + cgiurl = "http://cgi.example.com/ikiwiki.cgi" and access the + CGI via staging.example.net. Self-referential links to the + CGI point to cgi.example.com, but maybe they should point to + staging.example.net? + +* *(possibly incomplete, look for TODO and ??? in relativity.t)*