Serving HTTP and other protocols

Serving content from your site to your users is effectively a mechanism to translate HTTP requests to HTTP responses.

In Plone, answering to HTTP requests can be divided to three subproblems

• Managing HTTP request and response pair lifecycle
• Publishing by traversing the request to the target object by its URI
• Choosing different parts of the code depending on active layers

Plone (ZMedusa server) also supports FTP and WebDAV protocols.

• HTTP request and response
  • Introduction
  • Lifecycle
  • Web servers
  • HTTP Request
  • HTTP response
  • Middleware-like hooks
  • Post-publication hook
• Traversing
  • Introduction
  • Object ids
  • Path
  • Exploring Zope application server
  • Attribute traversing
  • Container traversing
  • Traversing by full path
  • Getting object path
  • Getting object URL
  • Getting the parent
  • Getting the site root
  • Getting Zope application server handle
  • Acquisition effect
  • Custom traversing
  • Other resources
• Publishing
  • Example publishers
• Layers
  • Using layers
  • Creating a layer
  • Checking active layers
• WebDAV
  • Supporting WebDAV in your custom content
• FTP
  • Enabling FTP
• Web services (XML-RPC)