frames and iwproxy

I have a frameset with three frames, frame A is the site-wide top navbar, frames B &C live in a nested frameset. Frame B is narrow menu frame on the left and frame C is the main well where the content is displayed.

The content for the frameset, and frames b and c live in the same branch. The content for A lives in a separate branch.

I have a [iwproxy_preconnect_redirect] regex which allow the page to load correctly in preview, but should I click any link in frame C, I lose the images in FRAME A when the document root tracked by the teamsite changes to that of Frame C.

I have a fairly large amount of content using this model, and I'm wondering if anybody else has face this predicament, and if so how you solved it.

Were you able to map everything correctly?
Did you have to alter your branch structure?

Does anybody know if Interwoven is aware that a frameset needs to track multiple docroots?

Thanks.
Len.
COlumbus, OH, USA.

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laj1

I don't usually reply directly to my own postings, but I have to say, that I'm a little disappointed with you ghoti, and you smitty, for not answering.

I mean,. come on, you guys answer every other question. Just look at your posting stats. :-)

Adam Stoller

I don't create web pages with framesets - hence no answer. Besides, I have to give others a chance to reply once in a while (not to mention trying to get *my* work done)

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

laj1

Fair enough.

Migrateduser

Try using preconnect_remap instead of preconnect_redirect.

The reason iwproxy can track only one docroot at a time is that the Refreer header is broken in Netscape 4, so the cookie has precedence. At some future date, we will drop support for Netscape 4, and docroot tracking will be done by Referer header only.

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laj1

Making it work for frames would be good.
We're an IE shop, so something being broken in IE to work around a flaw in Netscape is pretty disappointing.

In the meantime, I'm probably going to have to combine my development branches back into one branch, instead of breaking it up into sub-branches by department/topic/application/etc.

I may need a low-level, fairly technical description of the differences between redirect and remap, in terms of what action the proxy takes and what changes they make to the proxy's state.

But I'll see if I can figure it out from the manuals before I formally request.

Migrateduser

preconnect_redirect sends an actual redirect to the browser, meaning that the browser's idea of what the current URL is changes. This changes the area context of your "In-Context QA" session.

preconnect_remap rewrites the request without notifying the browser. It affects only how iwproxy completes the request (where it proxies to).

In general, you should be able to use preconnect_remap for just about all your needs. Definitely break things up into subbranches if you want (for instance, to give only some users workareas for chunks of the material).

PS i'm the developer working on iwproxy and iwwebd. Sorry about the NS4-specific lameness affecting everyone, but you can understand that we don't want to have to support different behavior for different browsers. And if you haven't noticed, IE is the most incredibly insecure application on the planet. Check out http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

laj1

Thanks for the explanation.

> PS i'm the developer working on iwproxy and iwwebd.
> Sorry about the NS4-specific lameness affecting everyone,
> but you can understand that we don't want to have to
> support different behavior for different browsers. And if
> you haven't noticed, IE is the most incredibly insecure
> application on the planet. Check out
> http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

Insecure or not, it's responsible for better than 90% of the traffic my personal web sites get, and is the browser we code to internally. I have no choice in the matter. Beyond that, I don't wish to debate the matter, I just want to preview with frames and multiple branches.

Len.

laj1

preconnect_redirect has been working for me so far. Hopefully it will scale as I start adding more branches.

Thanks to apost for the clue.

Len.