[Zope-dev] PROPOSAL: Site objects

[Hannu Krosing]

Adam Feuer wrote:
> 
 o VirtualHostFolders derive from the Folder Object
>     -- with an additional property, IPaddress
>        (this will eventually be a list of IPaddresses?)
> 
> o Small patch to ZServer.HTTPRequest
>     -- so it places the actual socket IP and Port numbers into the
>        request's environment (HTTP_SOCKET_IP and HTTP_SOCKET_PORT)
> 
>     -- i didn't use HTTP_HOST for mapping since it is symbolic;
>        i wanted to have a 1:1 mapping from IP address to path

At least leave an option to use HTTP_HOST, as many sites are using 
NamedVirtualHosts - I do it all the time with Apache.

> o new persistent Remapper object
>    -- holds dictionary of IP:path_prefix mappings
>    -- Issue: how and where to store this, since it needs to be
>       notifies upon creation or deletion or changes
>       to VirtualHostFolders,

Should probably be a property of your VirtualFolder class/product
(as opposed to an instance)

...

>   whatever way is eventually chosen, i think virtual hosting is a Good
> Thing and will help make Zope better and better...  :-)

Amen!

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Hannu