[Zope] Re: catching shorter URLs

[J Cameron Cooper]

Aaron Maupin 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.

Why not just make the display_game method get its value from the path? 
That will simplify your task greatly. Here, 'traverse_subpath' is your 
friend.

           --jcc
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