Take a look at my Redirector product, which does this very thing -- it
Thankyou for replying Whilst this is I'm sure a useful mechanism redirecting whole folders is overkill for what I need to do. I have many links into a tree and wish to have a very simple format for the external links and an internal mapping mechanism which maps each link to its real URL. My question remains. What's the most run-time-efficient (not development-time-efficient) way of doing it? I think you gave me the quickest development route which is not quite what I was asking. Full question below:
I have some pages within zope which are linked to externally (from non-zope pages). I want to have some sort of internal index so that I can move the zope pages around completely within zope (move a page and change its index) without breaking or having to change the external in-pointing links.
This mechanism will come into play for nearly every page in my system so I'm looking for the most efficient code to do this.
My thinking about possibilities for the index :-
methods in a folder properties of a folder properties of a dtml-doc some other sort of data structure
For the redirection its obviously more efficient to do it something like dtml-var rather than redirect back to the client but (as my other posts show) I'm often really struggling to get my object references right (only partial understanding - looking forward to better documentation) I'd appreciate some help here too.
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