[Zope] Including a bunch of binary files in Zope

[Jason Wong]

Graham

please correct me if I'm mistaken - having read the How-To it seems that it
only allows you to get at the *contents* of the files. All I need is a
pointer, a reference, to the file so someone can download it.

Anyway I tried it with the following:

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<h2><dtml-var title_or_id></h2>
<a href="<dtml-var "support['brochures']['brochure.pdf']">">Test Doc</a>
<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

When I view this in the browser I get a 'Save to file' dialog, I duly saved
the file (it was an HTML file) and on viewing the saved file I can see that
it does indeed
contain the contents of brochure.pdf(!), which is not what I want.

To re-phrase my original question - how do I construct a URL in Zope such
that it can refer to a file on the local filesystem?

thanks
-
Jason Wong


> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Graham Chiu
> Sent: 27 March 2000 17:20
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Including a bunch of binary files in Zope
>
>
> In article <000601bf97c5$3590d960$0200a8c0@digitalview.com.hk>, Jason
> Wong <jwong@digitalview.com.hk> writes
> >I've got a load of files (PDFs, TIFs) that needs to be accessible from
> >within a Zope application. I need to be able to link to them so
> people can
> >download them. What is the best way to go about it?
>
> localFS
>
http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/HowTo/DTML_with_LocalFS

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