[Zope] Accessing .gif on disk with Python Product?

[Chris Withers]

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:23:36PM -0400, Evan Simpson wrote:
> > From: Martijn Pieters <mj@digicool.com>
> > > misc_ is a root level object. Using absolute_url you are acquiring it into
> > > your Instance URL, which is not necessary (and will hamper off-server
> > > caching). Use &dtml-SCRIPT_NAME; instead (which will give you the absolute
> > url
> > > of the root object in all cases):
> > >
> > >   <img src="&dtml-SCRIPT_URL;/misc_/myProduct/chooserIcon" border=0>
> >
> > I sugget using "&dtml-BASE1;", since SCRIPT_NAME doesn't work well with
> > virtual hosting.
> 
> I don't see this would make a difference; Zope is passed the base URL at which
> it takes over the URL. A SiteAccess object may only influence parts of the URL
> that come _after_ this base.
> 
> http://zopeintherooturl/foo, where foo is a Zope object, has SCRIPT_NAME='/',
> while http://zopeinasuburl/zope/foo, has SCRIPT_NAME='/zope/'. Zope may remove
> the foo from the URL because of some Virtual Host rule, SCRIPT_NAME will still
> be valid.

Sorry, I'd have to agree with Evan on this one. I'm pretty sure I've had
SiteAccess not play nicely wih SCRIPT_NAME whereas BASE1 works fine...

cheers,

Chris