[Zope] Zope to plain html

[Karl Fast]

> > Zope is highly scriptable, so wouldn't it in theory be possible to write
> > something that let's you "publish" your site to say, an FTP server, as
> > static files?
> 
> You wouldn't even need Zope's scriptability to do this. Something like
> "wget" would do. Just point it at the main page, and it will mirror
> everything to a local filesystem.

Hmm, but isn't the big problem with all of this that zope doesn't use your
standard .html, .gif, etc. extensions for it's URL's.

This is something kind of bothers me a bit. Suppose I have a site and I
want to move it to Zope to make it easier to manage. But I have a lot of
people who visit my site and may have bookmarked various pages. I don't
want my URL's to break because that means lost eyeballs, and depending on
what I'm doing, lost business. Now I understand I can make zope respond to
things like /index.html or /News/hello.gif, but doesn't this require some
tricks. I mean, names like file.html isn't "the zope way", is it? So to
use things like "wget" or curl or something like that, I need to do some
pretty careful planning before I get started.

Am I right, or is my zope newbie status simply out of control here <g>.