[Zope] problems rendering objects stored in the local file system

[Cliff Ford]

You have at least two choices:

1. Use apache and don't fetch index.html and the images through zope. 
Most installations use apache in front of zope, so this is just a matter 
of rewrite rules.

2. Use an External Method and make each image src attribute a function 
call, passing the image url as a paramter, for example:

<img src="fetchimage?from=some/place/in/your/file/system"...

If you do that, make sure you include code to check that a malicious 
user cannot fetch any file from your file system. There have been some 
recent (this year) posts of example code you can google for.

Cliff

Dennis Allison wrote:
> I am having trouble figuring out how to get Zope to access and render 
> html and images files properly in the following context:
> 
> In the local file system (that is, the Linux file system to be explicit) I
> have a collection of directories each containing an index.html file
> consisting of HTML and a collection of image files (*.jpg, *.gif, *.swf)
> referenced by the HTML.  From a DTML object in the ZODB, I want to render
> the index.html and have it properly access the local image files.  
> Calling the file "index.html" may be a bad name choice because it may be
> interpreted especially. In fact, what I really would like to be able to do
> is to reference all files relatively and allow internal directories and
> the like.  We've been using the LocalFS product, mostly with great
> success, but this has got me stumped.
> 
> Any suggestions? hints? pointers?
>