New Mail macro doesn't work on static sites

[Dave Winer]

Susan, I looked at the code in manilaSuite.mail.displayLink, and Brent made
a change that I don't understand, so I'm going to have to wait for him to
comment. Basically it's using a relative URL when it needs to have a fully
qualified URL. Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kitchens" <susan@auntialias.com>
To: <Manila-Newbies@userland.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: New Mail macro doesn't work on static sites


> Cool new feature! Works nicely on dynamic Manila sites. However, when
> rendered to a static page, the resulting url for the mail page doesn't
> refer back to the dyamic site, with a result of a 404.
>
> Gory details of my test are as follows
> (also posted on http://www.2020hindsight.org/2001/09/07.html)
>
> Static Mail-this-story test results: NO GO (so far)
> I activated the macro on the dynamic site, dusted off a story that's
> mostly notes-to-myself about links about Manila News Items, gave it a
> relative URL and rendered the static page. The "Send This Story" link
> does appear in the bottom of the page, but, when clicked, it results in a
> 404.
>
> Dynamic site (it works!)
>
> * story url: http://discuss.2020hindsight.org/aboutnewsitems
> * mail url: http://discuss.2020hindsight.org/mail/mailStory$2235
>
> Static site (it doesn't completely work)
>
> * story url: http://www.2020hindsight.org/aboutnewsitems.html
> * mail story: http://www.2020hindsight.org/mail/mailStory$2235 [404
> results]
>
> Somehow Manila doesn't know to write the link to refer back to the
> dynamic site, in the same way that a 'discuss' link needs to go back to
> the dyamic site.
>
> Hope this helps for fine-tuning!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Susan
>
> Susan A. Kitchens
> susan@auntialias.com
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