Aaron, The Path Handler product (http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/PathHandler) is your friend. Normally, you would create a path handler called 'games' and point it to your display_game method. To obtain the result you describe, you could move your display_game code into index_html and test for a path_to_handle, else display your 'real' index_html. Have fun. Ken --- In zope@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Maupin <maupin@...> wrote:

I'm trying to make pretty URLs for a game site I'm

developing, and due

to the hosting environment I'm somewhat limited in my Apache URL rewrites. (I've tried the normal mod_proxy / mod_rewrite rules and they haven't worked in this environment.)

I'd like the visitors to see

http://games.mydomain.com/game-title

Whereas what's really being accessed is

http://www.mydomain.com/display_game?title=game-title

or any solution that allows me to query a relational

database for a game

title so I don't have to create hundreds of objects in Zope.

The only idea I have now is to use a Virtual Host Monster mapping to send visitors using the games.mydomain.com to a folder that contains a custom standard_error_message that reads the request object, figures out the game title, and queries the database.... but that's really inelegant.

Is there a way to inspect the request before Zope starts traversing objects?

Or any other ideas on how to accomplish what I want? I'm not new to Zope, but I basically use it as a container for Python scripts and haven't delved too deeply into it otherwise... so I may be missing something obvious.

Aaron

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