[Zope] Big improvement for load_site.py, patch included

[Oliver Bleutgen]

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, seb bacon wrote:

>> (lazily not looking at the source)

> Shame on you !-)

>> I'm guessing load_site uses a POST or the FTP interface or similar,
>> right?  Space is a legal character in Zope, but not in HTTP.  So even
>> M$ websites shouldn't have spaces in their names, anyway.  Having said
>> this, I've seen some sites which do, and IE handles them OK.  Typical
>> ;-)
>>
>> However, there are some legal HTTP characters which are not legal Zope
>> characters.  Off the top of my head, these include '+' and '%'.
>> load_site would need to parse document contents to fix this kind of
>> thing, I imagine.

> I don't know what load_site uses, because it's encapsulated in
> ZPublisher/Client.py, however I suppose the problem only occurs because of
> the ids (and maybe titles), so there's probably no need to parse
> documents' contents, only their ids/titles

I guess seb thinks of adapting links to documents/images/style sheets,
whose URIs have to be changed, because their names contain
characters which are illegal in zope ids.


cheers,
oliver