Any URL your browser requests from the server is mapped to both an object and a method. The method is executed on the object, and a response is sent to your browser.
http://localhost:8080/
returns the Zope Quick Start page. In this case, we only specify an object – the root object – but no method. This just works because there is a default method defined for Folders: index_html. Visiting the URL:
http://localhost:8080/index_html
returns (almost) exactly the same page.
--> url ends with / refer to a object. ends with no / refers to a method.
As already mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, Zope uses the default method if no other method is specified. The default method for Folders is index_html, which does not necessarily need to be a method itself
The index_html object may be a Page Template, a Script (Python) object, a DTML Method or any other Zope object that is URL-accessible and that returns browser-renderable content. The content is typically HTML, but Zope doesn’t care. You can return XML, or text, or anything you like.
-->index-html is only the default method of a folder object. not for all objects.