Andy McKay wrote:

So now I need to change it so most normal errors (such as 404) are handled by standard_error_message.

I'm pretty sure 404s are handled by standard_error_message already. Authentication Errors aren't! :-(

So I went to HTTPResponse.py and found this:

def _error_html(self,title,body): # XXX could this try to use standard_error_message somehow?

I gather someone smarter than me has tried this before. Before waste a day going down this path, does anyone have any advice?

There should be a collector issue on this somewhere. Apparently it is possible for _all_ errors to be handled by standard_error_message. Sadly, some are still hardcoded to use the internal one, Authentication being a good example. Some coding needs to be done by someone who understands the intricacies. I wonder if there are any plans at DC or if this one has been shelved? cheers, Chris PS: This would be very nice for the PTK: Give people a nice screen saying 'we can mail your password to you' if they get it wrong, rather than barfing the standard "Zope Error" message...