> > We have several large installations at TRIUMF that use the old-style custom pages - MUSR, BNMR/BNQR, TITAN (and more?) -
> > none of these experiments are going away any time soon and none of these custom pages are rewriting themselves.
>
> Then you have a problem. Last time I told you that the new URL scheme breaks parts of the custom pages, especially the ones containing GIF images with labels on it. You then said "these experiments have to bite the bullet and
> change it", and I proceeded. Now you tell me that this will not happen. So please be aware that these experiments do have a problem and probably are stuck with an older midas version.
>
Yes, there is a problem and some adjustment is needed.
I do not think the new URL scheme requires us to abandon existing experiments.
At this point I am trying to minimize the number of adjustments required, for example:
If we do not need to move files around (and create symlinks), it is good - so the old scheme of saving file names in ODB lives on
If we do not need to edit every file to adjust every URL, it is good - so now that http://blah/CS/custom_page is gone (no more "CS/"), http://blah/custom_page had to be implemented
If we do not need to replace all the ODB /Alias entries, http://blah/ODB_PATH now redirects to http://blah/?cmd=odb&odb_path=ODB_PATH and all the old aliases to ODB still work
I am going through these things as I discover them with Suzannah.
The biggest problem so far we have seen is with some pages having incorrect form submission
settings - some forms use the wrong form "action" attribute, which worked before, we do not know
why, and definitely does not work now. This is not something that we can fix on the midas side.
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