April 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

base href
by julian＠zereau.net 17 Apr '99

17 Apr '99

How can I turn off or tune the <base href="..."> stuff that zope insterts? it is giving the wrong value when used with apache URL rewriting, and messing up what is otherwise a page that would work. --- Julian Morrison Programmer (Zereau Ltd)

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ANNOUNCE: ZServer 1.0b1 release
by Amos Latteier 17 Apr '99

17 Apr '99

Hello Zopistas: I am happy to announce the first beta release of ZServer, the next generation internet information server for Zope. http://www.zope.org/Download/ZServer This release totally changes the internal response queue architecture, and fixes lots of bugs. There aren't really many new features to speak of except that things work better, FTP seems pretty stable, and PCGI should now be usable. If you're using the latest Zope from CVS you can even do WebDAV! For more details checkout the README and CHANGES files http://www.zope.org/Download/ZServer/README.txt http://www.zope.org/Download/ZServer/CHANGES.txt Unfortunately ZServer is still not really fit for normal human consumption. Why? Because it requires manual installation and an unreleased version of ZPublisher. But that shouldn't be enough to stop a curious Zope hacker. For those of you without the ability or desire to get CVS running, I've included a recent snapshot of ZPublisher. Also there's a new INSTALL.txt document, and the Medusa configuration script is heavily commented. So what are you waiting for? As always I'd love to hear your coherent bug reports. Report them to the Collector. I'm especially interested in PCGI problems, weird FTP client problems, and HTTP 1.1 problems. http://www.zope.org/Collector/developer_input?PProduct=ZServer&version=1 .0b1 Have fun! -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Re: Zope site testimonials needed
by Luciano Ramalho 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

We have just finished implementing a news publishing system for "IDG Now!" (http://www.idgnow.com.br) the Brazilian tech news web site of IDG (http://www.idg.net) It is the most popular web site of its kind in Brazil, and Brazil was the 6th largest IT market in the world in 1997. Thanks to the exceptional design of Zope, whenever the project presented us with a new challenge we very often found that the solution was trivial. It is obvious that the DigiCool people have already faced most of the problems web developers might encounter, and implemented their solutions in Zope. In a few cases we resorted to External Methods, mainly to encapsulate long sequences of DTML which had complicated logic and would be used repeatedly. Also, because it was so easy to re-use solutions from one part of the site to another, we actually managed to deliver several modules one week BEFORE the deadline, so since April 8th all editors were already using our system to publish their stories. During the week before the April 15th deadline we made minor adjustments responding to user feedback, and implemented a few features not in the original requirements. All of that was very easy too. Since yesterday the last module is fully operational. Because of special circunstances which we cannot discuss, it was a requirement that the system used no server-side applications (IDG Now! is currently hosted at the largest content provider in Brazil, UOL http://www.uol.com.br; the site runs from a very large Sun machine which hosts hundreds of other sites). So the Zope application runs inside IDG's intranet in São Paulo. The pages are exported to the file system before being sent via FTP to UOL. SSI is used in the public Web server in order to support a very dynamic side-bar and footer which contain links to other stories. The include files are also generated automatically by the Zope application. About 40 new pages are generated daily. Our first professional experience with Zope was a pleasure and a success with the users. We are now looking forward to an oportunity to put Zope to full use, running on a public server. I (Luciano) have been developing high-profile web-sites since the early days of the Web in Brazil (1994). I've had the opportunity to work with high-end products such as NetDynamics, Silverstream and the deceased Netscape Publishing System. None of them comes near Zope in supporting web-sites which are a mixture of structured and unstructured content (most are exactly that). With Zope you get to choose the level of automation to implement in different parts of the site, taking into account the frequency of updates, the skill level of the people responsible for updtating and the complexity of the updates. This allows you to provide your customer with a highly cost-effective solution. Finally, we would like to take this oportunity to extend our most sincere compliments and thanks to the people at DigiCool, who have developed a fantastic tool and are now allowing us to share in using it and further developing it. It is very exciting to be part of the Zope community. [ ]s Luciano Ramalho and Jose Octavio Hiperlogica Solucoes Internet Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Re: [Zope] Zope site testimonials needed
by Marquess E.. Lewis 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

Christopher Petrilli wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 03:37:06PM -0400, Marquess E.. Lewis wrote: > > > > [asks for more testimonials and amens] :-) > > What would help in providing this would be some idea of what use you're > planning to apply Zope (or something else) to... We have several apps that would sit on zope: 1. Publication of hundreds of "articles" that have the same behavior but different branding associated with each. The content for these publications is created and managed by non-techies. Attribution and the Factory/Lever stuff is of particular interest here. 2. Customer support, subscription sales and e-commerce. This will talk to our existing back-office systems and would replace our home grown app server and NetDynamics. This sells product over the web and provides the tools for the folks who answer the phone that deal with customers. Just lots of SQL, presentation logic (what products are available, etc) and talking to our existing business logic, much of which is alread in python. Not too many worries here. 3. "Syndication" of content but the syndication is performed by thousands of users for hundreds more users. The base content is developed by us by managed and created by non-techies as in 1). But our customers munge it further for their customers. This is the "customers who have customers..." that zope seems to have been built to support, but scaled up a lot. A million page views per day is not an unreasonable number. Performance is a big worry here. We know that the "alternative" can handle it but the price makes me choke. I hope the above is not "content free buzzword compliant". Marquess markl(a)shore.net

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Zope+FreeBSD.???
by Daren Sefcik 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

Has anybody gotton Zope and FreeBSD to work..?? I cannot get it working and have read some posts to same extent, if anybody has it working could you be kind enough to share your setup details?? TIA, Daren

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standard error msg
by John Eikenberry 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

Is the standard_error_message supposed to be used in all cases that an error is raised? It doesn't seem to be getting used when I get a 404 (NotFound) error. All it returns is the basically formatted error "Sorry, the requested document does not exist." and the traceback (and title). I've tried changing the standard_error_message doc method but it never appears for this type of error. How can I get it to use the standard error document. Thanks, --- John Eikenberry [jae(a)kavi.com - http://taos.kavi.com/~jae/] ______________________________________________________________ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will deserve neither and lose both." --B. Franklin

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RE: [Zope] = replaced with == in sendmail!!!!!
by Jay, Dylan 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Paulo Eduardo Neves [mailto:neves@inf.puc-rio.br] > Sent: Friday, 16 April 1999 12:06 > To: Jay, Dylan > Cc: 'Michel Pelletier'; 'zope(a)zope.org' > Subject: Re: [Zope] = replaced with == in sendmail!!!!! > > > "Jay, Dylan" wrote: > > I couldn't get it to work but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't anyway. > > I had a look at the MailHost code and found some quoting > stuff that if I > > knew more about python I might be able to do work out the > problem with. > > > > I've just managed to send accend chars (iso8859-1) in an > email. I had to > add some headers to the message to make it work. Adding it > made the mail > client interpret correctly the email. Probably everything > will be ok if > you also use them. > > Here is: > >  > From: Myself <me(a)here.com> > To: Somebody <she(a)somewhere.com> > Subject: Hi! > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > 1+1=2 >  > > Try it and see if it works. > > Maybe these headers (content-type and enconding) should be added by > default. In fact looking at the code in MailHost.py again, these headers are already added. Is the quoting going wrong or is are the headers wrong or is it the email client? bfile = StringIO(body) mo=rfc822.Message(bfile) for k, v in mo.items(): self.conn.send('%s: %s\015\012' % (string.capitalize(k), v)) # Add some Mime headers if not present if not mo.has_key('Mime-Version'): self.conn.send('Mime-Version: 1.0\015\012') if not mo.has_key('Content-Type'): self.conn.send( 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"\015\012') if not mo.has_key('Content-Transfer-Encoding'): self.conn.send( 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\015\012') self.conn.send('\015\012') body=bfile.read() body=self.singledots.sub('..', body) body=string.replace(body, '\r\n', '\n') body=string.replace(body, '\r', '\n') body=encode(body, 0) body=string.replace(body, '\n', '\015\012') self.conn.send(body) self.conn.send("\015\012.\015\012") self._check('354') def _close(self): self.conn.send("quit\015\012") self.conn.close() ESCAPE = '=' MAXLINESIZE = 76 HEX = '0123456789ABCDEF' def needsquoting(c, quotetabs): if c == '\t': return not quotetabs return c == ESCAPE or not(' ' <= c <= '~') def quote(c): if c == ESCAPE: return ESCAPE * 2 else: i = ord(c) return ESCAPE + HEX[i/16] + HEX[i%16] def encode(input, quotetabs): """Encode a string to Quoted-Printable""" output = '' for line in string.split(input, '\n'): new = '' prev = '' for c in line: if needsquoting(c, quotetabs): c = quote(c) if len(new) + len(c) >= MAXLINESIZE: output = output + new + ESCAPE + '\n' new = '' new = new + c prev = c if prev in (' ', '\t'): output = output + new + ESCAPE + '\n\n' else: output = output + new + '\n' return output def decapitate(message): # split message into headers / body mfile=StringIO(message) mo=rfc822.Message(mfile) hd={} hd['to']=[] for header in (mo.getaddrlist('to'), mo.getaddrlist('cc')): if not header: continue for name, addr in header: hd['to'].append(addr) hd['from']=mo.getaddr('from')[1] hd['subject']=mo.getheader('subject') or "No Subject" return hd, mfile.read()

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Dynamic SQL problem
by chalaouxf＠synbio.tpgnet.net 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

Hi Zopepists, The first statement of this SQL method get sqlvars from a form. It's working fine :) But as you can see 'idsoftware' is unknown in the second sql statement before the first statement is achieved. Thus, I tried to get 'idsoftware' from [select idsoftware from software where name = ] but obtained the error message (see below) Is there a solution, do I need a dynamic SQL methodology!? FR SQL method ---------- insert into software (name,idcompany,sversion,url,howto) select max(idsoftware)+1, , , , ,  from software  insert into softdomain (idsoftware,iddomain) values( (select idsoftware from software where name = ), ) Error message ------------- Error, exceptions.SyntaxError: unexpected token sequence.near :: 'domain) values('*'(select idsoftw' ******************************* current state = 168 expects: 'numeric_literal', '?', 'character_string_literal', ('nomatch1',) current token = ((-6, '('), '(') <hr>SQL used: <pre> insert into software (idsoftware,name,idcompany,sversion,url,howto) select max(idsoftware)+1, 'cerius', 1, '3.1', 'dd', 'dd' from software ------------------------------------------------- ----------- insert into softdomain (idsoftware,iddomain) values((select idsoftware from software where name = 'cerius'), '1') </pre> <hr> </body></html> </body> </html>  François-Régis Chalaoux Bioinformatics Group Synthélabo Biomoléculaire 67080 Strasbourg Cedex FRANCE Tél : 03 88 60 87 14 Fax : 03 88 45 90 70

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RE: [Zope] ZServer problems
by Michel Pelletier 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Bickford [mailto:jim.bickford@flinders.edu.au] > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 9:34 PM > To: 'Zope Users List' > Subject: [Zope] ZServer problems > > > Hi all... > I've been lurking on the list for a few months and slowly coming to > grips with > some Zope zen. > I am trying to migrate the school site across from a static > one to Zope. > I have no trouble running ZHttpServer or Zap but I'd like to use FTP > but there's the rub. > After sorting out all the initial Red Hat 5.2 problems with help from > Amos et al ZServer accepts http connections fine > but no matter what I try I can't use ftp.... > In the current set-up on my home P133 > > Zope-1.10.2 is set-up and running as user: Zope > > > [/home/Zope]$ ftp localhost 8021 (or any other user) > > Connected to localhost > > (hang) > > Any help much appreciated... > Cheers > JimB > > JimB, Are you running the Alpha 2? ZServer has changed a lot on its way to beta, a more recently checked out version may fix your problem. To run the CVS version of ZServer you will need to be using the CVS version of Zope, so the whole thing could be risky and should only be done for testing/development purposes and not for a production site. If the newest version does not have this problem, you'll know that you won't have the problem when we release 1.11. -Michel

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RE: [Zope] = replaced with == in sendmail!!!!!
by TFE MMS JARVIS JOHN 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

You don't need to compile python files. Shutting down and restarting Zope will (should) use your changes. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay, Dylan [SMTP:djay@lucent.com] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 1:24 PM > To: 'zope(a)zope.org' > Cc: 'Michel Pelletier' > Subject: RE: [Zope] = replaced with == in sendmail!!!!! > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paulo Eduardo Neves [mailto:neves@inf.puc-rio.br] > > Sent: Friday, 16 April 1999 12:06 > > To: Jay, Dylan > > Cc: 'Michel Pelletier'; 'zope(a)zope.org' > > Subject: Re: [Zope] = replaced with == in sendmail!!!!! > > > > > > "Jay, Dylan" wrote: > > > I couldn't get it to work but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't anyway. > > > I had a look at the MailHost code and found some quoting > > stuff that if I > > > knew more about python I might be able to do work out the > > problem with. > > > > > From using http://cie.motor.ru/RFC/1521/6.html as a reference to > quoted-printable encoding it seems that '=' should be encoded as '=75' not > '==' and hence the code is wrong. > > So changing function 'quote' in the MailHost file to > > def quote(c): > i = ord(c) > return ESCAPE + HEX[i/16] + HEX[i%16] > > should work. If only I could work out how to compile python files... > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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