Re: [mv] Flypage broken with arg\

[Ken Berland <ken@hero.com>]

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Well, they wouldn't need to recode anything.  You wouldn't be changing
flypage.  Those who need to use args would use the new page.

I think flypage does some server side side stuff that precludes it from
opperating in the way you wish.  The server checks to see if a static page
exists with name=item-code, if not it does a scan on the products
database, if it matches, it returns flypage with that item.  adding
arguments screws up that searching process, I think.

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:

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> > I posted an answer to this.  Don't use flypage.  Use any other page, pass
> > all your arguments and the item-code, parse them out, and do an in page
> > search to display the right stuff.  You can pass any data you like and use
> > perl to retrieve it.
> 
> But there are two nice things about flypage:
> 
>    1.  It's automatically there 
>    2.  Other sites that link to/from this online store have already been
>        told to use the flypage format, and are developing accordingly
>        (think of it as an online store that keeps extended descriptions,
>        etc. on multiple servers across multiple domains, but wants to 
>        maintain the session id when visiting another domain, then return
>        it with a code identifying the remote domain)
> 
> I think that your solution is a good one to get things working in
> a pinch.  I was just hoping to avoid telling everyone else that they
> need to re-code their stuff.
> 
> But probably the biggest thing is satisfying my curiosity.  :)  Is this
> a bug?  Is it supposed to work this way and I'm missing something?  I 
> don't mind backing up and trying again, but I'd like to know why it
> is instead of saying that I just couldn't get it to work...  
> 
> Chris
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