[Zope] Re: Calling a dtml-method that has an extension (Was: Re: [Zope] Creating files on server)

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Gitte,



--On Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 09:20 +0200 Gitte Wange 
<gitte@mmmanager.org> wrote:

> On 25 Apr 2001 15:49:19 +0200, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>> Hi Gitte,
>>
>> are you sure, the extension .smil is really needed?
>
> Yes - if the RealServer should recognize the file.

Is it really the RealServer who reads the file? I would rather
think of the browser reading the file.

It looks like the whole proccess works this way:

You have a link in a html-page, this page may or may not
be dynamically generated. This link or object-embedding
directs to the smil-resource, which is also handled by zope
and generated on the fly or whatever. In this resource there
must be a reference to the RealMedia server itself.
Since the first reference inside the html-page is only a text
string, it can read anything, of course also a URL with
.smil extension. The browser usually looks for the mime-type
unless broken (the Internet-Explorer is usually broken and
looks on the extension rather then the mime-type).
Anyway, your smil-file generating object is only called by URL,
not by object-reference. So the identifier is not critical.
http://yourhost/yourpath/smilgenerator.smil?whatever=needs_to_be_transfered
_to_the_script

In opposition to the fact calling an zope-object in zope-context:

(here with dtml: ) <dtml-var smilgenerator.smil>
or <dtml-var 
"_.['smilgenerator.smil'](_.None,_,whatever='needs_to_be_transfered_to_the_
script')">

Which would obvously render the object inside another object,
mixing the output. The extension does not make any sense in this
setup.

HTH
Tino Wildenhain