RE: Displaying Location

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13297
interpreted = N
texte = >Trevor - > >>We have WebCat running on a server with which hosts multiple domains. >>Is it possible to have WebCat read the full location, rather than just >>the directory path? >>[ThisUrl] displays /page.html >>I want to be able to display http://www.domain.com/page.html >>or http://www.domain2.com/page.html, depending on what the user had >>typed in the location window. > >You can't do this (yet) - [ThisURL] displays the path relative to the >server root. If you want to get very complicated, you could try using >[hideif] and [showif] based on whether [referrer] contains 'domain.com' or >'domain2.com', but this would get a bit clunky if you had too many >domains. >A future version of WebCatalog may allow you to get more of the HTTP >header information passed by the browser (which would let you do what you >are trying to do), but it won't happen for a while. > >I hope this answers your question,Never tried and might be a dumb response...but reading the above wouldn't [referrer][thisURL] do what he is asking except on an entry page (default page)?Problem is that is somebody came into the site on page3 and skipped the default then it would not work.=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. RE: Displaying Location (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  2. RE: Displaying Location (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  3. RE: Displaying Location (Marc Eagle 1997)
>Trevor - > >>We have WebCat running on a server with which hosts multiple domains. >>Is it possible to have WebCat read the full location, rather than just >>the directory path? >>[thisurl] displays /page.html >>I want to be able to display http://www.domain.com/page.html >>or http://www.domain2.com/page.html, depending on what the user had >>typed in the location window. > >You can't do this (yet) - [thisurl] displays the path relative to the >server root. If you want to get very complicated, you could try using >[hideif] and [showif] based on whether [referrer] contains 'domain.com' or >'domain2.com', but this would get a bit clunky if you had too many >domains. >A future version of WebCatalog may allow you to get more of the HTTP >header information passed by the browser (which would let you do what you >are trying to do), but it won't happen for a while. > >I hope this answers your question,Never tried and might be a dumb response...but reading the above wouldn't [referrer][thisurl] do what he is asking except on an entry page (default page)?Problem is that is somebody came into the site on page3 and skipped the default then it would not work.=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter)

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