[Zope] ZGETMAIL ? => Zope wget + mail-this-page

[Jason Cunliffe]

Hi

A popular feature for some is mail-this-page-to-a-friend. Depending on the
circumstances, this ranges from lame harassement to a cool and useful thing.
Mostly on the lame side imo, but can offset problem of heavy frames use.

Sending a URL is often all that is requirtrd but for dynamic sitses this may
or may not produce the intended result. so I am wondering if anyone has
already come up against this with Zope, or has good suggestions for doing
so.

I can imagine a small product, ZGETMAIL, which harnesses a server-side wget
tool to snapshot the selected current page in HTML, timestamp it and send or
stash it like a digital postcard. Mail-this-Zopepage-to-a-friend would then
allow one to send a special url linking to the location holding the snapshot
HTML.

The goal is to reduce confusion from forwarding URLs whose content changes,
and to make it as easy and hassle free as possible to do so [no outlook
express instaces screwing things up etc]. Useful especially for people
logged into unfamiliar web terminals while away from laptop/home/office.

- Jason
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Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS['Interactive Art and Technology']