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AGENT CREATION - REMOTE SEARCHING - REMOTE FORM PROCESSING
by Theodore Patrick 07 Aug '99

07 Aug '99

One of the key elements of agent and spider creation is the ability to retrieve, parse and store remote objects. All of which Zope can handle very well. Has anyone explored Agent Creation and Remote Spidering in Zope? Here are my main questions? --------------------------------------------------- Can Zope interact with other servers as if it were a browser (crawler/spider/user)? Can Zope modify its identity(agent-detection parameters) to simulate a version of a browser? FACT: The interface to all of the current internet applications online are forms. How feasible is it to allow Zope to exchange data Server to Server via forms? --------------------------------------------------- Any ideas? Theodore Patrick http://www.ishophere.com

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Cookie-Free Shopping Cart
by Josh Zeidner 07 Aug '99

07 Aug '99

hello, I just completed a simple cookie-free shopping basket product, if anyone is interested in using it, let me know. Steve Spicklemire is working on a similar project, using a slightly different technique for retaining session info from request to request( he used aquisition, I used the query string ). I would tend to believe that Steve's is simpler to use than mine, mainly in creating links from page to page( the session id must be maintained in the query string ). -Josh Zeidner _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

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indexing dynamic sites with ZCatalog
by Pawel Logatschev 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

hello, does anybody happen to know how to index websites with dynamic content. when i try to index pages including data by aquisition, only the templates are indexed. regards, pawel

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Accounting API
by Josh Zeidner 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

Does there exist any kind of API for accounting software? -josh z _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

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WARNING: Zope 2.0b2 considered harmful to ZClasses
by Christopher Petrilli 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Gang, Well, this is unusual, but unfortunately ZClasses seem to be largely broken in beta 2. How this happened we're not sure, and we sat and tried to fix it as quickly as possible, but the problem seems to be quite deep, and not due to any recent single change. What this means is that if you're using ZClasses you shouldn't even *think* about using Zope 2.0b2. This would be a bad idea. To prevent problems, I'll be removing it from the web site. Sorry for all the problems, and thanks to those who noticed. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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Re: [Zope-dev] the birth of ZCommerce
by Christopher Petrilli 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

> Josh Zeidner wrote: > >> 2) Maybe we should agree on an accounting system to implement the API in ( >> Beachtree seems like a likely candidate ). > > No, we shouldn't. We want this done the Unix fashion, where you have > choice. An unfortunate reality for anyone who has not spent their entire life mired in accounting is that you have to have a *starting point* for all implementations. To design an API in a vacuum is a foolish thing indeed. It is best to try and look at what one instance requires and make it as generic as possible. It is not unreasonable to choose a commercial product for this given the fact that I know of no "Open Source" accounting packages, and even if they did exist, I'd hazard they have market share measured on a single hand. This wouldn't be the most prudent method to grain a scalable API. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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database memory concerns
by Joerg Wittenberger 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Hello folk, For evaluation purpose I've got a zope installation working about 2 weeks ago. I did not do too much, just about 1M worth of data (my old home page and some docs) thrown in and installed a squishdot site for test purpose. Thist blew the data base to approx 29M!!! Now I wanted to move most of it, actually one folder, into the new version. Because I already hit to many minor problems, I decided not to experiment with copying the old data base over the new one. Instead I exported my data (still not much more that 1M worth). This grew it to 39.95 MByte! After reimporting the whole thing into the new data base, the latter weights in with 14M, buh, at least a bit saved. Hm, now I'm a bit afraid of what's going on. Im considering zope, because it might be a choice for a valuable amount of documents. But those are approx. 2GByte of text files spread over something like 200K files. Given the above experience I have to expect 60GByte of disk usage. True? BTW: what gets stored in the spare bits? I should mention that I decided to use the gadfly data base, because I did not find any hints in the docs, why I should use the one or the other. Only a short note, which seems to indicate that other data base adaptors might be broken with the new version (V2 of zope). Moreover I'm a bit concerned about scalability issues. I could not find any note at all at that topic. How much can I expect zope to handle? I have approx 100 users accessing, searching, extending the above mentioned 2GB data. The required solution should at least indicate that, after 10 years and another 20Gbyte it's still working. thanks a lot /Jerry

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Bug
by Joerg Wittenberger 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Hello folks, I just tried to install zope 2.0.0b1. Here my first problem: $ python zpasswd.py access Username: superuser Password: Vefify password: Please choose a format from: SHA - SHA-1 hashed password CRYPT - UNIX-style crypt password CLEARTEXT - no protection. Encoding: crypt Domain restrictions: localhost Traceback (innermost last): File "zpasswd.py", line 251, in ? if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv) File "zpasswd.py", line 241, in main access_file.write(username + ":" + File "zpasswd.py", line 112, in generate_passwd return pw NameError: pw Any clue? thanks a lot /Jerry

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RE: [Zope-dev] WARNING: Zope 2.0b2 considered harmful to ZClasses
by Brian Lloyd 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

> > Ouch. One thing: zope.org/Download/ still links to beta 2, > now a broken link. > > -- > Martijn Pieters Thanks - I've fixed that. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Product variable values
by kent＠tiamat.goathill.org 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Is it possible to have class variables in a Zope Product which : 1) are not stored in the object database 2) are reliably updated and retained throughout the life of a zope session when called by _bobo_traverse__() I've written an example Zope Product to investigate these issues and cannot determine a reliable way to achieve the desired results. '_v_name' values are only *sometimes* retained from one http get (via _bobo_traverse__() )to the next so those are out. I can't determine a pattern to when they are and when they are not. Sometimes, with two almost identical names, one's value is retained while the other's is not. 'name' values are *sometimes* retained from one get to the next within a _bobo_traverse__(), and again, I can't identify when or why. However, changes to 'name' variables are stored in the Zope database, so that's also out. Thanks

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