Feature Proposal: Fallback To Topic When URL has Trailing Space And No Subweb exists but topic does

Motivation

Help the user that typed a traling / but really just wanted the topic to find his topic

Description and Documentation

See Tasks.Item598 for the background

When you type a URL like http://mydomain/Webname/Topicname we all agree what is web and what is topic

URL http://mydomain/Webname/Subweb/topicname we also agree on

But http://mydomain/Webname/Subweb/ what is that?

The TWiki 4.X behavour is that you reach http://mydomain/Webname/Subweb/WebHome

But what if Subweb does not exist. But we have a topic called Subweb.

TWiki 4.X gives an oops that the Subweb does not exist.

This proposal suggests that if a subweb does not exist but the topic with same name does - Foswiki will go to the topic instead of giving an oops.

The scope for this would be 1.0.1

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: KennethLavrsen for SvenDowideit - 02 Jan 2009

Discussion

I raised this proposal for Sven so that I could close Tasks.Item598 but not allow Sven's suggestion to be forgotten.

I am not sure I prefer this way but if a majority think this is the right way then I will not give any resistance.

This proposal does not break any existing URLs. It is fully backwards compatible.

As release manager I do not dare putting this in 1.0.0. But OK to sneak into a patch release 1.0.1

-- KennethLavrsen - 02 Jan 2009 - 04:24

This has not been sneaked in yet. But noone raised concern so it was 14 day accepted a long time ago.

Sven now that we have release vs trunk - this enhancement should go into trunk only so we get enough time to test and find any negative sideeffects we may have forgotten.

-- KennethLavrsen - 21 Mar 2009

all i ask is that my common use case isn't broken: i often install a blog in a WikiName directory under Main (yes, at the same place that WikiName.txt exists)

-- WillNorris - 23 Mar 2009

eeee, deferring to 1.1.1 or more likely 2.0 - depends on what the change actually entails.

-- SvenDowideit - 31 Mar 2010

Depressing is that my Foswiki 1.0.9 site must use /ParentWeb/SubWeb/ and not /ParentWeb/SubWeb to access the SubWeb.WebHome

-- PaulHarvey - 31 Mar 2010

TimHeilig raised a task - clearly there's user desire for this too..

-- SvenDowideit - 29 Jun 2010