[Zope] newbie question: Is it possible to search both Zope + static pages at the same time? the same time?

[Steve Palincsar]

On Mon, 08 May 2000, Chris Beaumont wrote:
> I have a newbie question.
> 
> I'm going to be adding a dynamically generated Zope core to a static
> website (over 5500 HTML documents) and if it's at all possible, I'd like
> to be able to search both parts of the site from one interface. 
> 
> I was thinking that it would be possible if I could use a spidering web
> crawler, rather than one that looked at the filesystem. I'm assuming
> that it wouldnt be possible to use the search engine in Zope to search
> external content, but I know that since I'm new to Zope, I might be
> wrong..
>

We're considering the very same thing, and as a test ran Infoseek
against zope.org, and what we discovered says that this approach
works just fine.

> I am sure that others have walked this road before me. What were your
> experiences, what did you use (the platform is debian linux)  And is
> this a valid approach? 
>