Wrong form action

[tutonien]

Hello,

There may be an improvement in the form of the ​fourth part of the tutorial.

The form sends the vote to /polls/123/vote/ (with 123 the poll id) but the form itself is in the detail page which URL is /polls/123/. Therefore, it would make more sense to use a relative URL instead of an absolute one.

<form action="/polls/{{ poll.id }}/vote/" method="post">

This way, the poll app would be more "pluggable" because the polls directory does not need to be at the root of the server.

<form action="vote/" method="post">

Thank you for your time and your good work.

[Jacob]

(In [10371]) Fixed a whole bunch of small docs typos, errors, and ommissions.

Fixes #8358, #8396, #8724, #9043, #9128, #9247, #9267, #9267, #9375, #9409, #9414, #9416, #9446, #9454, #9464, #9503, #9518, #9533, #9657, #9658, #9683, #9733, #9771, #9835, #9836, #9837, #9897, #9906, #9912, #9945, #9986, #9992, #10055, #10084, #10091, #10145, #10245, #10257, #10309, #10358, #10359, #10424, #10426, #10508, #10531, #10551, #10635, #10637, #10656, #10658, #10690, #10699, #19528.

Thanks to all the respective authors of those tickets.

[Karen Tracey]

Note this change broke the error path through the associated view. See #10801.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

(In [10973]) Fixed #10801 -- Reverted a portion of [10371]. Practicality beats purity in this case. Thanks to bruce@… for the report. Refs #9771.

[Gabriel Hurley]

I'm in agreement with the assessment that practicality wins in this instance. The tutorial should be simple, understandable, and "just work".

If you want to make your app pluggable you need to be using the {% url %} tag and/or get_absolute_url to be getting these attributes dynamically, which is outside the current scope of the tutorial. Using a hard-coded relative path is (IMHO) just as bad as using a less-pluggable absolute path. It's already been proven to be just as fraught with error.

If someone wants to suggest that the tutorial cover named views and using the {% url %} tag then a new ticket should be opened for it.

As such, I'm closing this as a wontfix.