[Zope-dev] Catching "extra path"

[Ian Beatty]

Hi again.

I'm chipping away at the problem I asked about earlier ("Product Access to
Files") -- or perhaps just beating my head against it -- and I've got
another question.

If I'm writing a Python script within the ZMI, any URL that resolves to my
script will invoke the script, even if the URL has "extra" stuff appended:

    http://host/folder/script/a/b/c

will invoke a script at /folder/script. Furthermore, I can get at the
"a/b/c" part from within the script by accessing 'traverse_subpath'.

The question is, how can I do this from within a Python-based product?
Calling

    http://host/folder/object/method/a/b/c

fails to invoke the method 'method' on my custom object 'object'. Instead, I
get a "Cannot locate object" page.

It's hard to believe there's something I can do with a ZMI Python script
that I can't do in a Python product...

Thanks,

..Ian

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Dr. Ian Beatty                           beatty at physics.umass.edu
Physics Education Research Group              voice: 413.545.9483
Department of Physics                           fax: 413.545.4884
Univ. of Massachusetts              AIM: (available upon request)
Amherst, MA 01003-4525 USA       http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/
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