[Uml-devel] umbrello.org is live (well... sort of)

[P. Fleury]

Luis, great !

Your scheme seems however to suffer another problem: links rewriting. If 
you are on www.umbrello.org, it will load the welcome page fine. But it 
leaves all the links in the page point to the original site, so when the 
user clicks on a link, you're back on uml.sf.net :-) You would have to 
to forward the request to uml.sf.net, then process all the links from 
the response, replacing uml.sf.net -> wwwumbrello.org, then only sent it 
back to the user. This works fine on my little personal family site, but 
for higher traffic, is completely unacceptable on the server ...

I have a fourth option:

On www.umbrello.org, make a single welcome page, consisting of a 
frameset with one frame filling the screen. This frame will then load 
its content from the real site.

Advantages:
- almost no load on the intermediate server (just serving a simple 
trivial and small file)
- you get the real thing (i.e. uml.sf.net)
- the name uml.sf.net never shows up in the location bar of the browser
- easy to setup :-)

Inconveniences:
- the address in the toolbar is always www.umbrello.org (but typical 
browsers can bookmark the complete page with all the links in the 
frameset, so that bookmarking a sub-page should work)
- it uses frames (this is somewhat a religious thing, some people love 
them, some hate them, no middle ground)

--Pascal


Luis De la Parra Blum wrote:

>Hi all,
>just to let you know that the domain umbrello.org is now up and more or less 
>working =)
>
>I tried to configured it to do URL-hiding, but right now it seems to be doing 
>header-forwarding... I'll have to check what's wrong, but I think that will 
>have to wait untill tomorrow.
>
>If you dont get the difference here is a brief explanation:
>
>URL-hiding: *************
>when you type umbrello.org in your browser, the request goes to the server of 
>my domain manager, they then send a request to uml.sourceforge.net, get the 
>answer and then forward it to you.
>
>advantages: clients dont notice any difference as if the domain were really 
>pointing to uml.sourcefoge.net --everything works. if you type something
>like umbrello.org/dir/form.php?var=value, then they forward everything so 
>there is no problems.
>
>disadvantage: it is slower, since everything has to go through the servers of 
>my domain managers
>
>--> This is what I tried to set up, but somehow it doesnt seem to be working.
>right now it seems I'm doing header forwarding
>
>Header forwarding: ******************
>when you type umbrello.org your browser gets a redirect to uml.sourcefoge.net
>
>advantages: faster than url-hiding
>
>disadvantages: once you get the redirection then our name is gone from the 
>address bar. so you see umbrello.org in your browser only the time it takes 
>for the request to get to the server and the redirection to return (maybe one 
>or two seconds)
>
>
>The third option ******************
>and actually the real one would be to set the entries in the DNS record to 
>point to sourceforge.. this would mean to have the "real thing"
>
>problem: I dont know if we can do this.... ie... what is the IP address of our 
>web server at sourceforge? and how do they differentiate between the 
>different projects???
>
>unless someone does some research on the third option, I would suggest to 
>stick to the url-hiding.
>
>regards
>
>luis
>
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