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Can anyone explain the significance of the @@ characters in some of the urls here? I've not seen these in urls before and wonder if there's a specific reason why they're there.

Example: http://demo.monsti.net/@@login

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Not saying that is the case here, but Zope used to use @@ in the URLs for view lookup. Like in /folder/item/@@editWithFancyForms.

That's the case. Monsti is influenced by Kotti which is influenced by Plone which is based on Zope which uses @@ for "actions" (or whatever they call them). Monsti uses @@ to distinguish actions from regular URLs.

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