[Zope-dev] ZServer should redirect for folder objects?

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi :-)

--On Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2001 15:51 +0200 Christian Scholz 
<cs@comlounge.net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
>> Why do people always mirror? I dont see the advantage in it. If you think
>> about caching, you will see you dont need mirroring at all but can
>> transparently
>> influence which element is complete dynamic and which is somewhat static
>> by sending different expires: header. At least squid can be configured
>> to not let people force reload from outside.
>
> For example: One of my customer wants some snapshot of the site for the
> archive on CD-ROM... So how do I do that? (without giving them a full
> Zope install on it which is sometimes even not possible as there are
> sql databases etc. involved..)

This is hard anyway. Imagine you have many forms or even have content-
negotiation running :) So it might be more easy to put a complete
Zope on the CD ;)

> And in general I think the "you don't need it anyway" answer is always
> the solution ;-) I also think that there has been some more problems
> with the base tag I just don't remember them anymore ;-)

Sure, may be it is possible to patch absolute_url() so it does not
render the full hostname (relative=1) + leading slash.

> (but I remember that we came to the conclusion that it's not possible
> without it anyway as there is some structural difference between the Zope
> object model and the web object model (if you can call it that way..
> let's say directory structure ;-).

Lets say object path expressed as URL ;-))

Cheers
Tino :)