[Zope] 'including' output from external files in a DTML doc?

[Phil Harris]

Tone,

Couldn't you create an external method that used urllib to open th document
through http, since both bits are on the same machine the overhead should be
insignificant.

HTH

Phil
phil@philh.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk>
To: Zope List <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 2:57 PM
Subject: [Zope] 'including' output from external files in a DTML doc?


> Hi all,
> I thought that the simple
>
> blah
> <!--#var quote-->
>
> where quote is a DTML method called
> <!--#call
> "RESPONSE.redirect('http://host.domain/cgi-bin/general/quote.pl')"-->
>
> might include the output from quote.pl at the point where <!--#var
> quote--> appears.
>
> It doesn't. The redirect loads up quote.pl (which it was always going
> to do of course....)
>
> Anyone got any ideas on how to include output from external programs
> (in my case it will be Perl and PHP3) in a Zope document?
>
> tone
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