[Zope] Need some help wrt URLs and methods...

[Phil Harris]

tone,

Have a look at the 'external filesystem' product.

Set this up to look at the directory on the real filesystem, then you could
use your method in a slightly different way, i.e.

http://blah/blee/ext_fs/results.rtf/get_file

Where ext_fs is the external filesystem and get_file is a method in a lower
Folder.

I do this sort of stuff with XML Documents works great.

Mail me if you need more info.

Phil
phil.harris@zope.co.uk



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony McDonald" <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: [Zope] Need some help wrt URLs and methods...


> Hi all,
> I have a (very heavily used) system that allows downloads of many
different
> file types from a filesystem (ie located outside the Zope system) to
people.
>
> The URLs are somwthing like
> http://blah/blee/get_file?filenumber=213
>
> get_file is an external python method that does all the good stuff of
> database lookup and logging off downloads.
>
> The system gets the file from the unix filesystem and does some
machinations
> with headers such as contennt-type and content-disposition to *try* and
get
> the browsers to behave themselves.
>
> What I'd like to do is have something like
> http://blah/blee/get_file/results.rtf
>
> which helps to make the browser download the file correctly.
>
> The problem is that the Zope system says that the URL doesn't exist.
>
> Is there any way around this (I know that ZSQL methods manage it with
> traversal, but I can't figure out how to do it with this setup I have).
>
> Any thoughts gratefully received! :)
> Tone
>
>
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