[pmwiki-users] page actions when viewing a nonexistent page

Jon Haupt jhaupt at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 11:55:28 CST 2006


On 2/9/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:34:21PM -0600, Jon Haupt wrote:
> >    I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request, but it'd be
> >    nice if at least there was some way to specify to the link engine that I
> >    didn't want to rewrite ?action=whatever to ?action=edit just because the
> >    page doesn't exist.
>
> 1.  It'd be a feature request; but I don't have any problem with
>     modifying the page link engine so that it doesn't add ?action=edit
>     for non-existent pages if a query string is already specified.
>
> 2.  There's a kludgy workaround -- you can always write the link as
>     {PageName$PageUrl}?action=whatever and the link engine won't
>     rewrite it.  :-)
>
> Pm
>
>

That seems like something we'd want to vote on because there are
stated advantages to having the page action changed when the action
couldn't be carried out (as in print).  I'll make a PITS entry.

Jon




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