[Zope] Forms, RESPONSE, REQUEST, and redirect

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Dennis Allison wrote:
> It has been a long day...
> 
> So, I have been trying to bend Zope to my will and making some progress.
> But this one has me a bit befuddled either because I'm tired or because I
> am missing something.
> 
> Here's what I am trying to do...
> 
> I have a method (in the particular case at hand, it is an External Method,
> but it could be a Python Script or DTML).  It gets control, gets access
> to its REQUEST and RESONSE objects and does something.  In particular, it
> arranges some computation and modifies some REQUEST values, and possibly
> adds some new ones.  It then redirects to another object, this time a DTML
> document which, when it renders, will want access to the initial REQUEST
> object data as modified.  

I suspect you should take a look at Dieter Maurers FormDispatcher product.
http://www.handshake.de/~dieter/pyprojects/zope/Dispatcher.html

cheers,
oliver