Routes in Pylons: Mapping to explicit .htm file

Question

How do I write a route to map to an explicit .htm file?

E.g. I have a something.htm under /templates in Pylons and I want to map http://myserver.com/something.htm to something.htm under /templates. Can I do this with Routes for Pylons or does everything get mapped to some combination of /controller/action/id ?

I would assume one way is to do: map.connect('something.htm', '/something.htm', controller='something', action='something') and create a dummy controller for it (which just returns render(/something.htm))?

This seems like cumbersome for this simple job.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

not sure if this is the best solution, but i have a mapping

map.connect('{name}', controller='something', action='identity')

which basically points to the name

def identity(self, name) return render('/' + name)

is there any security risk with this or what's the standard solution for this?

Answer 2

Actually, that's what the /public directory is for. Files in /public are matched before things in the map.connect() table. So if you put foo.html in /public directly, http://www.example.com/foo.html will send you to that page.