Dave,
Let me re-state the above suggestion to see if I have it right:
1. Client makes a generic request.
2. Server sends a response containing hyperlinks. Each of these links "drills down" to a more specific request.
3. Client clicks on one of the links to get the specific information s/he wants.
4. Server delivers the specific information.
far better expressed than I did
This Web application style is known as REST (representational state transfer). It's fairly well documented and is considered, by its proponents to be quite strong. Here is a link:
Thanks for the link. I was not aware of REST as a concept.
Zope seems well suited for implementing applications in this style.
You can find hints for a simple method of doing the dispatching based on the URL path here:
http://zope.org/Members/dkuhlman/ZopeHowToNotes/#traversing-a-url-path thanks for this document. I looks to be a real nice summing up. And I finally learned how to access a webdav resource from kate :)
robert