Method Description
Binary.txlatePath()
Take a relaive pathname and run webserver translations on that name returning the resolved path
Syntax
string = Binary.txlatePath(pathname)
Parameters
The 'Binary.txlatePath' method takes 1 parameter:
| Name | Type/Value | Range/Length | Description | | pathname | string | | Required. The un-modified path name that's to be translated. |
Results
The 'Binary.txlatePath' method returns string:
| Type/Value | Range/Length | Description |
| string |
| |
Remarks Web servers typically map URLs to internal 'files' or handlers using a set of transformations. Some of the transformations are simple. For example if the URL ends in a '/' the web server might translation this to '/index.html'. Other transformations can be more comlpex. Apache for example provides a URL re-writing module which can take regular expressions to transform URLs to file handlers. For example: RewriteRule ^/assets/.*$ /getAsset.rhtm/$1 will take any URLs such as 'http://server/assets/my_image.gif' and make them to the file '/getAsset.rhtm/my_image.gif'. The rb.page.env methods provide access to the original URL, eg via rb.page.end.Path(), however there are times when it's useful to know how that URL is translated to a file handler. Binary.txlatePath(path) provides a means to achieve this. Extending the example above: var handlerFile = Binary.txlatePath('/assets/my_image.gif')will return: '/getAsset.rhtm/my_image.gif' |
