Why can't they be the one and the same? Redirector is fast -- I suspect the difference in speed between Redirector and something else would be negigible.
I confess, what you have is a very good idea. The reason I'm hesitating is because there won't be two or three areas and its wrong to call them areas. They will be single documents and a little bit further down the road there may be hundreds of them needed and not in any homogenous flat structure but at different places in a tree. Also, I really do need every last inch of speed out of this part. Hardwiring your code to use a dictionary looks like a good idea for the present. Some questions: 1. does your product redirect back to the client or within zope? 2. assuming it were hardwired as you suggest what would be the runtime cost over just having folder methods in zope do the redirection? 3. I haven't touched python for 2 years now (though I did use it a lot then) - I'm very rusty. Could you supply a patch to hardwire in a dictionary instead of the regex code? Assuming 2. is satis this *could* be a good answer. 4. still looking for an answer to my orginal q - what's the most efficient way? Andy
Remember that a Redirector folder is in itself just an index (of regexps -- it's not hard to wire the lookup so that, if the term is not a regexp, then it will use a dictionary, which is a lot faster). It does not need to contain anything, and you need only one Redirector folder to accomplish what you ask for. Let's say you have three areas that others link to: Downloads, Registration, and News. First, create a Redirector folder called, say, /Targets. Then edit the folder's redirection mappings to look like so:
From To Downloads /Downloads Registration /Snark News /News
Notice that the Registration name maps to /Snark -- this to illustrate the mappings have nothing to do with the *names*. Now, having done this, you can access your mappings like so:
http://www.myserver.com/Targets/Downloads
which will redirect to
http://www.myserver.com/Downloads
Isn't this what you want?
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