[ZCM] [ZC] 237/ 2 Defer "(Concept) Version editing via FTP/WebDAV"

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Issue #237 Update (Defer) "(Concept) Version editing via FTP/WebDAV"
 Status Deferred, Zope/feature medium
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= Defer - Entry #2 by mcdonc on Dec 16, 2002 1:05 pm

 Status: Pending => Deferred

Deferred, due to lack of available resources and a champion.
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= Request - Entry #1 by Anonymous User on Feb 21, 2002 5:41 am

The concept similar to VirtualHostMonster could be employed to solve the good old problem of 'how can I edit via FTP in version'. I imagine two possible ways to achieve it:

1) (better) add some functionality to the Version object, so while one accesses

ftp://some.zope.host:8021/somedir/SomeVersion/subdir/somefile
or (in case the above is hard to do)
ftp://some.zope.host:8021/somedir/SomeVersion/_access_/subdir/somefile

he or she is in fact editing /somedir/subdir/somefile within version /somedir/SomeVersion

2) (a bit worse) add separate VersionMonster object so 
one can access

ftp://some.zope.host:8021/somedir/_Version_/SomeVersion/subdir/somefile

(the exact URL to be discussed)


Of course, the whole concept would employ not only to ftp, but just to any way of using Zope. In fact, it could be used as alternative to cookies for marking the  work within the version inside Zope management interface! It could also allow for easy sending URLs to 
- say - someone who should review the changed content before the version is saved.

Whatever solution would be chosen, there should probably be some 'security' tab, so one can allow or disallow anonymous viewing of versioned content
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