[Zope-dev] request: FTP

[Ethan Fremen]

Michel Pelletier wrote:
 
> What happens though when the HTTP side of Zope supports multi-hosting
> (as it will in 2.2) and the FTP side doesn't?  When you start putting
> protocol specific widgets at the application layer (which is supposed to
> protocol independant) expect to be bitten somewhere, at some time.

But isn't BASE/URL protocol dependant? i.e., should it not return just the path, and not http:// ?  That way, I could just say <a href="ftp://&dtml-url0">download this page</a> and everything would be hunky-dory, _assuming_ I'm not worried about multi-hosting.

On the subject of multi-hosting, shouldn't a FTP0 be intelligent enough to go where the file is actually hosted?  So there may be www.spam.com and www.niknights.com but only ftp.nicehost.net, so &dtml-FTP0 in file http://www.spam.com/myfile would be ftp://ftp.nicehost.net/myfile 

(note- i've obviously not looked at the code)

> I
> would love to be able to, for example, detect when a method is being
> called by XML-RPC instead of HTTP, but it just can't be done, and it
> *shouldn't* be done, because all information pertaining to the protocol
> should be abstracted out at the application.

But doesn't BASE/URL violate what you're saying? or do I misunderstand how they work?

I just was writing how-tos for my clients, and had to write a lot of "hard" ftp urls.  I suppose I can just do a "download" method where I do a Content-type: application/octet-stream and then call the related url.

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