If I am understanding correctly, it is possible to pass parameters with Zope through a "normal" URL - ie a url that does not use the ?name=value format.

I asked about this a few weeks back where I wanted to use : http://domain/Zope/Restaurants/French/1232 instead of http://domain/Zope/Restaurants?Type=French&ID=1232 for purely aeshetic (anal) reasons. Somebody very kindly sent me some Rewrite rules for Apache but I didn't really want to depend on them so that my site is portable between Apache-PCGI, Zserver and even IIS. Alternatively, as you know, it is still possible to fake it using : /Zope /Restaurants /index_html /French (has a property ID='French') /German /Spanish but this is not scalable at all. If there is another method than these 2 I'd also be glad to hear.

Does this mean that a search engine robot on the home page would be able to spider to the dynamic pages?

I was under the impression that search engine spiders could wade through URLs even with ?var=value extensions. That said, I just checked webchecker/websucker that come with the python distribution don't they didn't like it :( chas