On Wednesday 01 September 2004 01:28, Max M wrote:

I need to integrate a few external .asp based web tools into a plone site.

Instead of recoding them and converting them to Zope products, I want to do it by "importing" them into Page templates.

What I need is basically to browse another webpage through a Plone Page template, so that I can keep the look and feel of the Plone site. Just as if I jused frames or iframes.

I have made something similar in the past, but not as complete.

there's KebasData (http://sf.net/projects/kebasdata) i don't think it's complete in a sense, but it does accomodate my needs. maybe your product is more complete compared to mine ;) essentially, KebasData - grabs a url (uses urllib, with timeout) - gets the data we want (by matching the regex; a .* gets everything), this is quite painful at the moment if we're targeting specific data. hints to improve is appreciated - and gives us the chance to do stuff to the data (rewrite, replace, etc). this is done in Script (Python) or DTML Method. a bonus is that we can cache these objects. an example is at http://www.my-zope.org. there's news from zope.org. and i used to get the latest message from yahoo zope list, but that failed sometime ago .. i havent yet investigated why..

I can see this as a usefull tool in many situations. So I wondered if anybody has done something similar allready, and have any experiences they want to share.

iirc, there's httpmounter or somesuch done by jens or ajung..

I especially wondered if there would be an advantage to using Squid/Apache as a middle layer, so that I wouldn't have to do the url rewriting myself :-s

this, didn;t even cross my mind. how do you think this can be done?

Any knowledge of documentation/pitfalls would also be appreciated.

i would think the remote sites accessability is important, hence the timeout. otherwise, our site will be blockin when all threads are trying to access the b0rked site.

regards Max M

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