[Zope] href on a local file (you can serve files from local file system)

[sathya rangaswamy]

Hello tilo
There is a product that will allow you to serve files from the file system.
Look under external access in download area. With this you can serve your
local files without adding to zodb
sathya
----- Original Message -----
From: <tilo.schwarz@daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:18 AM
Subject: [Zope] href on a local file


> Hi everybody,
>
> it's now my third day with Zope and I'm already pretty happy with it.
Finally I
> got external python methods running with passing parameters to them and
getting
> return values back. Although there is a lot of documentation, I couldn't
find
> any about the Zope internals. Does anybody know where to look for such
> documentation?
>
> Now my question concerns local files. We do image processing and have
zillions
> of images. I'd like to do some "have a page of thumbsnails and click on it
to
> see the full image" kind of web page. I saw the examle thumbnail code in
> http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/ScriptingZope.html, but that code
puts
> the thumbnails into the Zope Database within the python script. I'd like
to
> avoid that, because with our zillion images this would bloat the database
> pretty much.
>
> If I got the docs right, it's normally not possible to publish a local
file
> with Zope, only objects in the database can be published (correct?). But I
> would like to use a href like
>
> <A HREF="http://mymachine/images/0000.pgm">
> <IMG SRC="http://mymachine/images/thumbs/0000.pgm"></A>
>
> in the dtml. If I understand it right, the product "Local File System"
would be
> a possibility to do that. Is it the right way to go, or does anybody have
a
> better / other solution?
>
> Tanks for any help!
>
> BTW: I read about dropping external python modules in some future version
of
> Zope. For us, the main point with Zope is, that you can build a web front
end
> for a bunch of python modules we have. Thus, from our point of view, the
> dtml-binding possibility to python modules is essential.
>
> Tilo
>
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