Force use of $config{url} as top URL in w3mmode

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / bugs / W3MMode_still_uses_http:__47____47__localhost__63__.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/W3MMode_still_uses_http:__47____47__localhost__63__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/W3MMode_still_uses_http:__47____47__localhost__63__.mdwn
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--- a/doc/bugs/W3MMode_still_uses_http:__47____47__localhost__63__.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/W3MMode_still_uses_http:__47____47__localhost__63__.mdwn
@@ -22,3 +22,15 @@ Of course, the next time I rerun ikiwiki --setup, it will overwrite my wrapper-w
 I made a logfile of all the args, env, and stdin/stdout to/from my wrapper.  If you're interested, I'll email it to you.  I wasn't able to attach it here.
 
 -- [[terry|tjgolubi]]
+
+I confirm that the supplied w3mmode setup appears not to work. When I try to edit a page and save it, w3m tries to access an URL beginning http://localhost/ . The HTML source of the edit page contains a BASE URL beginning with http://localhost. It should not. Maybe this is a result of changes a while back, where use of absolute URLs was enforced in various places in Ikiwiki.
+
+-- Martin
+
+The problem is that IkiWiki::CGI::cgitemplate() and IkiWiki::CGI::redirect() use Perl's CGI::url() to determine the absolute URL of the CGI script when it is being executed. url() generates an URL beginning http://localhost. As w3m's serverless CGI mode is rather unusual, presumably there's no provision for the URL of a CGI script beginning file:///, even if there's a way to specify that.
+
+A quick workaround might be to force the use of $config{url} instead of $cgi->url as a base for URLs when w3mmode is set.
+
+-- Martin
+
+> [[Fixed|done]] --[[smcv]]