[Zope] catching shorter URLs

[Ken Ara]

Aaron,

The Path Handler product
(http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/PathHandler) is your
friend. 

Normally, you would create a path handler called
'games' and point it to your display_game method. To
obtain the result you describe, you could move your
display_game code into index_html and test for a
path_to_handle, else display your 'real' index_html.

Have fun.

Ken

--- In zope at yahoogroups.com, Aaron Maupin <maupin at ...>
wrote:
>
> I'm trying to make pretty URLs for a game site I'm
developing, and due 
> to the hosting environment I'm somewhat limited in
my Apache URL 
> rewrites.  (I've tried the normal mod_proxy /
mod_rewrite rules and they 
> haven't worked in this environment.)
> 
> I'd like the visitors to see
> 
>      http://games.mydomain.com/game-title
> 
> Whereas what's really being accessed is
> 
>     
http://www.mydomain.com/display_game?title=game-title
> 
> or any solution that allows me to query a relational
database for a game 
> title so I don't have to create hundreds of objects
in Zope.
> 
> The only idea I have now is to use a Virtual Host
Monster mapping to 
> send visitors using the games.mydomain.com to a
folder that contains a 
> custom standard_error_message that reads the request
object, figures out 
> the game title, and queries the database.... but
that's really inelegant.
> 
> Is there a way to inspect the request before Zope
starts traversing objects?
> 
> Or any other ideas on how to accomplish what I want?
 I'm not new to 
> Zope, but I basically use it as a container for
Python scripts and 
> haven't delved too deeply into it otherwise... so I
may be missing 
> something obvious.
> 
> Aaron


       
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