[Zope] serving up a file without making a zope object out of it

J Cameron Cooper jccooper@jcameroncooper.com
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:28:44 -0600


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>I have an excel file on my pc that gets updated every five minutes.  I would like to make a link to it from within zope.  Currently, I can add a file which can be served up from zope, but it becomes a static object after it is uploaded, and so it is not the copy which updates every five minutes.  I can do this simply in apache by putting the file in the htdocs file and creating a simple link to it.  How is this possible in Zope?
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I think ExternalFile is for you:

http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile

One might also point a LocalFS instance at it's directory, perhaps?

          --jcc