Often when my customers have got used to Zope and especially Plone as the UI to manage their website, questions go to using Zope and Plone for document management in intranet. It is old story that we all know how Zope sucks while serving large files compared to Apache. Serving large files from filesystem with Apache however takes out the whole point of using Zope - security mechanism etc. Has anyone achieved to combine Zope and Apache/php to serve and manage large files in a way that allows metadata and security of the files to be managed in Zope, but actual serving happens from Apache so that ZServer does not hog memory and processor. I thought about the possibility to integrate Apache/php and Zope via a database and tokens that are passed from Zope to Apache. The scenario could be following. 1) Apache and Zope are serving data from the same domain. Zope could be www.myfoobar.com and Apache could serve download.myfoobar.com 2) within the portal I would have a portal_external_storage_tool that defines the configuration and methods for storing and serving data outside Zope, including the database that is shared 3) Content types are own content types based on Archetypes and include logic for handing over the download to Apache 4) When user within the portal wants to download a file, the view / download function of the content type ( that is protected with Zope security machinery ) writes into the databse a token based on user, time, file or so. 5) User is transparently directed to the application in the download host to download the file. Token would be passed within the url 6) Download application checks that the token is valid for that file and that time - and starts serving data to the client. Has anyone done anything similar - or do you have other ideas on how to implement such? -huima