Michel Pelletier wrote:
We've kicked around the idea of an ExternalFile object, and I started a small project that fizzed out. My question was where to draw the line, do we make it a simple pipe to one file, or a Folderoid object that 'mounts' a part of a filesystem into Zope? The first would be pretty simple, the second would be pretty hard, IMO.
A while back someone posted this product called ExternalLink which may serve your purposes: On 1/22/99 The Dragon De Monsyne <dragondm@delta.integral.org> said:
Well, I've been having fun poking around Zope, and whilst learning, I came up with a simple,but usefull Zope product, ExternalLink.
It's used to represent hyperlink, and is usefull for linklists. It: - can check links - also keeps track of statistics on the remote document (size, mimetype & last modified date) - can count click-thrus - has a facility for batch creation of ExternalLink objects by uploading a simple textfile
And it includes a ZPublisher.Client script runnable from a cronjob to automate link checking (when the script runs, it does the actual contacting of the remote server itself to avoid blocking the Zope server)
So, get it, use it, love it :>
http://www.integral.org/~dragondm/python/ExternalLink.tar.gz
Hope this helps, Michael Bernstein.