On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:06:02PM -0600, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:

David (and the rest of you): Anybody tried building your pages on a local/personal Zope site, then pointing a web-sucker type app at it? I think the appropriate invocation of wget or lynx or some such would do an admirable job of taking a static snapshot of a reasonably simple site? As Paul said, you'd give up certain features, but that's understood. You're looking for the programmatic interface, whole site standardization, etc., not the context sensitive, dynamic content sort of features (that are a pain in the --- to implement on top of stateless HTTP, anyway), right?

Right. I actually DID try to point wget at my Zope site, but it seemed to randomly fail on certain pages. No consistancy either. Of course, I was using ZopeHTTPServer, which might not deal well with the hard-core banging that wget does. Perhaps I should try it again with the Zap version of Apache and see if it made a difference. What I'd really like is a tab like the "View" tab -- say a "Render" tab that starts at the current document and walks the tree, saving the generated HTML to files in a named directory, rather than serving them up. Seems that ZopeHTTPServer might be the place to start looking, stealing and/or modifying the code... dave