Re: [PATCH] gitweb: ensure the default stylesheet is accessible

[Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>
>> On some installations the CSS fails to be linked correctly when
>> path_info is enabled, since the link refers to "gitweb.css", whereas it
>> should be "${my_uri}/gitweb.css". Fix by setting the appropriate default
>> in the Makefile.
>
> Why "on some installations"? What does "some" mean? I don't think it
> is something indeterministic: please spell when one can have problems
> with linking CSS file.

The truth is, I haven't the slightest idea. It works fine on my
machine, it doesn't without the patch on ruby-rbot.org, but I really
don't know why.

> Wouldn't it be simpler to deal with problem of base URL when using
> path_info gitweb URLs to add BASE element to HTML head if we use
> path_info? Something like:
>
>        if ($ENV{'PATH_INFO'}) {  # $path_info is unfortunately stripped
>                print qq(<base href="$my_uri">\n);
>        }
>
> somewhere in git_header_html() subroutine?

Ah, this might work. I'll test it.

> It is not the same case for git-logo.png and git-favicon.png as for
> gitweb.css? If it is not, please explain why in commit message.
> If it is, then your patch is only partial solution to path_info
> problem.

Oh, interesting, true, I hadn't noticed.

I'll look into the base thing.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta