Toby Dickenson wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:18:07 +0000, Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> wrote:

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http://www.zope.org//Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ProtocolAccessibility

So it is :-)

Comments are still welcome...

Comments provided as requested

With sensible defaults, what I was proposing would be just as simple as things are now, but explicit and flexible. For example, if you start a method name with _, it's not URL traversable, or available in DTML. I have no idea about FTP but it probabyl won't be accessible through DAV. Alternatively, if you give a method in a python a doc string, it will be URL traversable. Take that doc string away and it won't be url traversable but will be accessible in DTML. Again, don't know about FTP or DAV. I agree the wording might be bad (that proposal is very old now), but how can something that seeks to clearly define and document something that has already been partially and accidentally implemented (as was often the Zope way ;-) be a bad thing? cheers, Chris PS: How would you hide things like standard_html_header and _footer from users? Access Contents Information is needed by a lot of methods (some of which aren't available to give proxy roles to) that using it to prevent peole from sniffing around in your site isn't feasible.