Oh and dissected URL matching is in...

[Kevin Ballard]

On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:04 AM, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> I've merged the stuff.  And I'm going to the crappiest thing I can  
> do right now.  I'm going to totally change it all.  It's rotten and  
> I hate myself right now.  I hope you will all join with me in  
> hating me.

Go ahead and change it, as long as you make it better :)

> The thing is: most people are going to want to use the register_url  
> stuff to do cross-domain Ajax.  Adding resources to the site is  
> important as well, yes.

I agree that cross-domain AJAX is the primary purpose.

> I just think that if a guygal is writing a user script for Google  
> that adds Yahoo search results, it's confusing to have to register  
> "http://google.com/.mouseHole/yahoo.com".

What else would you register? It has to be accessible from the source  
domain, which means it needs to be a google.com URL.

> In addition, it seems like a registered URL should be available  
> wherever the script runs.
>
> And, in the Javascript, the guygal should be given a bit of  
> convenient JS so that calls to "http://yahoo.com" will be  
> translated to the registered URL.

Easy enough to do.

register_url(:path => 'yahoo.com/google_aggregation') { |uri,req,res|  
do_stuff() }

The only problem with making it available everywhere is then you have  
the potential for name conflicts. An appropriate solution might be to  
give all scripts namespaces (and I don't mean the email address  
namespace we seem to be using right now - I mean a unique name for  
each script. Could be taken from the filename, but I think it should  
be declared in the script), and have register_url instead simply take  
a resource name, and you would then access that through http:// 
any.domain.com/.mouseHole/identifier/resource_name. And then we could  
do the JavaScript voodoo that hides the details about the URL from  
the user.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org

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