Re: Serving files as-is

Well, you could build a parallel directory to your datadir that's in your 
web-root.  So then the files would get served by your web-server and 
wouldn't go through pyblosxom.  Then you would have to change your plugin 
to look at the parallel directory hierarchy rather than the current 
directory.

The other thing you could do is build a plugin that's a handler.  This 
plugin would see urls like pyblosxom.cgi/file/foo/bar.xml and recognize 
that since the path_info starts with "file", it needs to pull the file and 
return it directly.  Then it does so and tells pyblosxom it handled the 
request and Pyblosxom execution would end.  There's an imagekicker plugin 
in the registry that serves up images.  It might help.

http://www.planetpyblosxom.org/blog/registry/display/graphics/imagekicker

Hope that helps!

/will


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Ross Burton wrote:
>
> I'm having a mental block whilst writing a simple plugin and am
> resorting to mailing the list.  I've got a plugin which looks for a
> certain file (not a  .txt file) in the current category, and if it is
> set adds a <link> element to the page.  However, I need to the link
> element to point at the file.  An example:
>
> [blosxom-base]/foo/bar.xml exists. When the web browser goes to /foo/
> the plugin sees that bar.xml exists in the current category and writes a
> <link> element pointing to foo/bar.xml.  However, when I try and fetch
> it pyblosxom doesn't accept bar.xml and returns a 404 -- I presume
> because it is looking for an entry called foo and a flavour called xml.
> Is there a way a plugin can catch requests for files and return foo.xml
> as is, without any more pyblosxom parsing?
>
> Thanks,
> Ross


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