Oliver Bleutgen wrote:
I'm looking for a product which allows me to manage files in zope which reside on the filesystem, and provide a natural way to be served from apache. As far as I see, none of LocalFS, ExternalFile, ExtFile provide a way to do that naturally - for instance by providing the 'precondition' property (to raise an appropriate redirect) or to allow an definable <a href="<something"> string to be rendered when called, analogous to the Image object.
Im not sure what you mean, LocalFS is all about managing FS things from Zope. Perhaps you might mean something like FS Cache Manager which takes objects served from and puts them on the File System in cache to be served from the FS using Apache, and works great for File and Image objects. http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/FSCacheManager -- Andy McKay