skip@calendar.com wrote:
Kevin> While you're working on requirements for a communities package, Kevin> let me add one more thing to consider: It would be nice to be Kevin> able to render static HTML documents for some things. There is Kevin> nothing faster for a webserver to spit out than static HTML. I Kevin> was thinking there could be a type of folder with a destination Kevin> property that could be rebuilt on command. I get the impression Kevin> that something like this would be easy to implement.
This is something Mason can do. It's also possible to achieve this functionality with a proxy server. You would like to be able to identify which files are really static and don't change from one call to the next (or change infrequently enough).
FYI I am as we type doing experimentation on using Zope with Squid (an HTTP Proxy/Cache) in HTTP Acceleration mode. -Michel
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