[Zope] ftp editing methods

[Alex Rice]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:05:38 -0400,
Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com> said:

Michel> Yes, this suggestion was forwarded by Hadar, but it makes me
Michel> shudder a bit.  Sniffing content is never a very deterministic
Michel> way of doing things.  It could be done, I guess, as a
Michel> configurable option.

This probably isn't a new idea but:

How about having the ability to define in the Zope UI certain protocols
(or Roles+Protocols) as "editing" protocols instead of "publishing"
protocols, like WebDAV and FTP for example. When objects are accessed
via those protocols, instead of seeing a single object, you see all it's
properties, meta type, etc as sub-objects which you can edit
individually. 

This way, if I want to, I can change the type of my object or any of
it's properties or I can just mess with it's content if I want, in the
case of DTML docs and methods.

This way, you aren't trying to prepend the meta data about the object
into all representations of it, and you don't have to worry about
sniffing content for every single upload.

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