[Zope] Making zope work with ad serving software

[Andrew Bunner]

  First of all, thank you to everyone who's expressed interest in helping us
with the EliteFitness.com project!

  We've been using a piece of ad serving software called Central Ad Pro. It can
be invoked via two mechanisms...

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/ssirand.cgi?REGION=my_region" -->

  -or-

<img
src="http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/getimage.cgi/unique?ACCOUNT=my_account&BANN
ER=my_banner"></a> 

  Now, if you want to serve an HTML "banner", you have to you use the SSI
mechanism... at least until we all have XML capable browsers and their fancy
X-LINKS <g>

  My question is, what is an analogous way to embed the output of a CGI into a
page served by Zope that will let us generate "useful" web logs? I read the
thread about pulling the links off LinuxToday, so I understand that there are
HTTP getting functions.

  I'm sure it's do-able, my main concern is that we're still able to analyze
the click-through ratios of the banners! This makes me think we will have to
use Zope with Apache.

  Is PCGI mutually exclusive with mod_perl? We already have mod_perl compiled
into Apache since it servers another (non-Zope) site on the same machine.

  Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

-- Andrew

   Andrew Bunner
   President, Mass Quantities, Inc.
   bunner@massquantities.com
   Professional Supplements for the Perfect Physique
   http://www.massquantities.com