Question

On pages protected from read (%ALLOWTOPICREAD% tag for instance), with the method using a viewauth script clone of the view script, the %TOC% tag is not working in the sense that clicking on headers in it just reload the page

• TWiki version: Sep 2001
• Web server: apache
• Server OS: linux
• Web browser: Netscape, opera
• Client OS: linux

The problem is that the links are of the form /.../bin/view/Web/ToPic#header But the URL of this page is of the form /.../bin/viewauth/Web/ToPic

So for the browser, this link is non-local, it tries to reload the page and get lost in the process

Possible solutions I can see:

1. in view script, if we are in viewauth, replace strings /view/ by /viewauth/ in the relevant places
2. change the base href=... tag to use viewauth
3. define a new var %VIEWSCRIPT%, expansed to view or viewauth depending on the context
4. use relative URLs for links (may be impossible for links into other topics)

-- ColasNahaboo - 23 Oct 2001

Answer

I implemented a low-tech (but effifient) solution based on 2: create a new template for viewauth, with just the name of the script changed in it. This is done by a:

  sed -e 's|URL%/view%SCRIPT|URL%/viewauth%SCRIPT|' <templates/view.tmpl  >templates/viewauth.tmpl

• pro: it works with no overhead
• con: you must re-update the viewauth template if you change the view template (add a reminder comment in templates/view.tmpl )

-- ColasNahaboo - 22 Nov 2001

This is fixed and in TWikiAlphaRelease. The fix is in TWiki.pm, it figures out to use viewauth instead of view for TOC. See also Codev.ViewAuthHandlingForTOC

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Nov 2001