Make URL separator configurable

[johh]

Search Terms

URL, link, file name, separator, dot

Problem

Some hosting services (Cloudflare Pages in particular) seem to have a problem with HTML files containing dots other than the file extension in the file name.
CF apparently treats any URL containing a dot as a specific file. This collides with their URL rewriting, which causes URLs ending in .html to be redirected to their extensionless version. Normally this works, but if theres a dot still remaining in the URL, CF will proceed to 404, since it can't find that file.

The request
/classes/mymodule.MyClass.html
is redirected to
/classes/mymodule.MyClass
which 404s since the file mymodule.MyClass does not exist.

Suggested Solution

While this is quite obviously a misconfiguration on CFs part, being able to specify a separator manually would mitigate this.
Afaik, this isn't trivially solvable with a plugin, since getUrl on the default theme is a static method. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe I'm missing a really obvious way to work around this – your help would be much appreciated!

[Gerrit0]

Wow, yeah that's annoying... this could be done by a plugin today by providing a custom theme that just overrode the buildUrls method, but that's still not ideal. I've wanted to refactor that part of the code to delegate to a separate router that could be configured independently from the theme for a while. This might be the necessary push for it to actually happen...

[Gerrit0]

Closing in favor of #2111.