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ZMirror - product at last...

This is beta code. I use it regularly and it works for me. YMMV.

Only seriously deranged zope users are advised to try this stuff Everyone else is advised to use wget instead. It's much safer. I just wanted neater urls.....

Guaranteed only to take up space on your hard disk. No guarantee of fitness for any purpose whatsoever.

Bug reports to [email protected]

Product to create a filesystem static html mirror of a zope site.

Completely useless for dynamic (eg database driven) sites except where you remirror the site everytime it changes. Possibly useful for slowly evolving sites where wget gives such ghastly path names that you want to weep - like when you run zope under apache and end up with paths like .../cgi-bin/zope/foo/bar/thing.

Note that if you use zope's image features, you're probably in trouble. I use img tags since these imply the image type in a filename - so my zope images have id's like thing.gif

Change log:
• 9/9/99 - great date - we survived so far. Productified using mkproduct - still lots of headbanging to get it working. Strange differences in the namespace cf external methods...

• 15/6/99 - checks all timedate stamps and only updates disk files when they are earlier than the zope objects

• 10/6/99 - moved all images to a dictionary assembled on the fly which is then processed at the very end since images are often reused. Serious aggravation ! Img tags often have relative urls like ../../image/thing.gif which need to be rationalised with the base path of the mirror site. It works for me more or less but YMMV