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@@ -191,14 +191,41 @@ New API added by this branch:
> The new form for local urls will typically be only a little bit longer,
> except in the unusual case where the cgiurl is elsewhere. --[[Joey]]
+ >> So, have urlto(x, y) use `$local_url`? There are few calls, but IMO
+ >> they're for the most important things - wikilinks, img, map and
+ >> other ordinary hyperlinks. Using `$local_url` would be fine for
+ >> webserver-based use, but it does stop you browsing your wiki's
+ >> HTML over `file:///` (unless you set that as the base URL, but
+ >> then you can't move it around), and stops you moving simple
+ >> outputs (like the docwiki!) around.
+ >>
+ >> I personally think breaking the docwiki is enough to block that.
+ >>
+ >> How about this?
+ >>
+ >> * `urlto($link, $page)` with `$page` defined: relative
+ >> * `urlto($link, undef)`: local, starts with `/`
+ >> * `urlto($link)`: also local, as a side-effect
+ >> * `urlto($link, $anything, 1)` (but idiomatically, `$anything` is
+ >> normally undef): absolute, starts with `http[s]://`
+ >>
+ >> --[[smcv]]
+
* `IkiWiki::baseurl` has a new second argument which works like the
third argument of `urlto`
+ > I assume you have no objection to this --[[smcv]]
+
* `IkiWiki::cgiurl` uses `$local_cgiurl` if passed `local_cgiurl => 1`
+ > Possibly changed to making this always be local unless `cgiurl => $x`
+ > is given: see below --[[smcv]]
+
* `IkiWiki::cgiurl` omits the trailing `?` if given no named parameters
except `cgiurl` and/or `local_cgiurl`
+ > I assume you have no objection to this --[[smcv]]
+
Bugs:
* I don't think anything except `openid` calls `cgiurl` without also
@@ -211,10 +238,18 @@ Bugs:
> I agree that makes sense. --[[Joey]]
+ >> I'm not completely sure whether you're agreeing with "perhaps do this"
+ >> or "that looks too strange", so please disambiguate:
+ >> would you accept a patch that makes `cgiurl` default to a local
+ >> (starts-with-`/`) result? If you would, that'd reduce the diff. --[[smcv]]
+
* It occurs to me that `IkiWiki::cgiurl` could probably benefit from being
exported? Perhaps also `IkiWiki::baseurl`?
- > Possibly, see [[firm_up_plugin_interface]]. --[[Joey]]
+ > Possibly, see [[firm_up_plugin_interface]]. --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> Not really part of this branch, though, so wontfix (unless you ask me
+ >> to do so). --[[smcv]]
* Or, to reduce use of the unexported `baseurl` function, it might make
sense to give `urlto` a special case that references the root of the wiki,
@@ -227,3 +262,5 @@ Bugs:
> AFACIS, `baseurl` is only called in 3 places so I don't think that's
> needed. --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> OK, wontfix. --[[smcv]]