http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess2 Site Access handles the incoming request and fiddles with it. Whilst this isnt what you want, looking at the source might give you some ideas. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Weholt" <thomas@cintra.no> To: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 6:10 AM Subject: [Zope-dev] Writing my own request-handler
Hi,
I want to write my own request in Zope. I want a specially formatted request or a command to be intercepted and processed by my own modules. If the user tries to access a url like http://www.myserver.org/myhandler or using a specific port on the server Zope traps this and my request_handler sends data back to the user based on the url .
Why? I got a PostgreSQL database as a backend for a huge information organization project. I want to serve xml using a fast and stable solution like Zope or Medusa to do this, since I also need ftp for object-uploads, allthough these are not stored in ZODB. A normal ftp-server is used, and hopefully I could set up a normal medusa kind of ftp-server on a given port to do this, and avoid all the files being stuffed into the ZODB. I got a lot of non-Linux ( therefore as far as a know, non-postgresql-python users ) so I want to give them xml to process using a know protocol like HTTP.
How can I write my own class/handler that traps this and serves my data ? I really want to use Zope cuz I use it for the rest of the site. I cannot serve all the postgresql data using plain zope-database methods cuz I want to write several clients in other programming languages that can receive and process the xml-format I use. The thing I want isn't xml-served as html, it's xml served to non-browser apps using HTML and ZOPE as means of delivery.
Of course all of this is to be written in old-fashioned python, no Zope-products.
Any hints, tips or guides is highly appreciated. I've looked at the Medusa source and found a couple of things that nearly does what I want them too, especially in the script_handler_demo-folder, but I'd like to get the whole thing into Zope if I could.
Thanks.
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