Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier) writes:

This has been discussed before. There should probably be some better system for sniffing uploaded content and trying to figure out what sort of Zope object to create. This could be based on

* file extensions * http headers * the content of the uploaded object * Zope preferences

This is a fairly complex problem. For example, there should be some way for you to specify that uploaded files with a given file extension create instances of a given Z Class.

I've been thinking about it (on the user-level-side) too. I'm far to new to Zope and Python to try to implement anything, but here are some ideas: Use 'site exec' to provide commands of the form 'If the file has extension foo, it's a bla' or 'All files from now on should be interpreted as bar'... Another idea would be to make it possible using site exec to set a flag, whether or not the files are up- and downloaded with or without HTTP-Headers. Then it would be possible, to set a Content-Type Header. And I would find it extremely useful, if I could set Attributes in those headers too, because I often have documents, which need a standard set of attributes and it would be nice, if it were possible to edit them together with the content. Just my 2c... Stefan.