[Zope] Re: PDF needs ExternalFile Object with byte-range capability?

[Michael Bernstein]

Michel Pelletier wrote:

> We've kicked around the idea of an ExternalFile object, and I
> started a small project that fizzed out.  My question was where to
> draw the line, do we make it a simple pipe to one file, or a Folderoid
> object that 'mounts' a part of a filesystem into Zope?  The first
> would be pretty simple, the second would be pretty hard, IMO.

A while back someone posted this product called ExternalLink which may
serve your purposes:

On 1/22/99 The Dragon De Monsyne <dragondm@delta.integral.org> said:

>         Well, I've been having fun poking around Zope, and whilst
> learning, I came up with a simple,but usefull Zope product, ExternalLink. 
> 
>         It's used to represent hyperlink,  and is usefull for linklists. 
> It:
>     - can check links
>     - also keeps track of statistics on the remote document (size,
>        mimetype & last modified date)
>     - can count click-thrus
>     - has a facility for batch creation of ExternalLink objects  by
>        uploading a simple textfile
>     
>   And it includes a ZPublisher.Client script runnable from a
> cronjob to automate  link checking (when the script runs, it does the
> actual contacting of the remote server itself to avoid blocking the 
> Zope server)
> 
>         So, get it, use it, love it :> 
> 
> http://www.integral.org/~dragondm/python/ExternalLink.tar.gz

Hope this helps,

Michael Bernstein.