Michel Pelletier wrote:
The FTP server could map: /zopever/myversionname/topdir would map to /topdir in myversionname
How would Zope know that you wanted to enter a version and that the FTP 'namespace' should be shifted to move the version to the root? The basic question then is how you 'enter' a version via FTP. Perhaps versions could be traversed through? I think this might introduce inconsitencies in logic dependant on absolute_url and the like....
It very well might, I haven't yet messed with absolute_url, so I don't yet fully grok the implications of what you're asking. But essentially, in the example above, "zopever" is a keyword that indicates the next item in the path is a version name, and that we should move into that version space for processing the rest of the path. So if I had: http://mysite.com/zope/dir1/dir2 and in dir1 there was a version called "myver" that was active, to access the contents of dir2 via ftp, I would use: ftp://mysite.com/zope/dir1/zopever/myver/dir2 I hope I didn't just explain something you already understood. Again, if the root of your question is based around absolute_url, I can't offer any useful input. Although, from what I think absolute_url might be, it doesn't really apply during ftp...?