December 2003 - Zope

Using shared sessions objets
by Thierry Florac 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I want to store "pre-generated" HTML code, common for all my site's visitors, in a shared "session" object. Until now, I was using the ZSession product and it's "Application" object, but I have several problems with this component (on Solaris, when I lock the application and delete an item, I frequently receive a core dump !!!). I've started to look at the new Zope-2.6.1 session machinery, but I didn't found anywhere how to store data into a shared session object. Could anyone help ??? I don't thing that storing a "common" file in a temp folder would be very efficient... Thanks, Thierry

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Zope instance question
by Sean Duffy 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

How would I go about running 3 separate zope instances from a single install with three instance directories in /var/zope-sites? I am not using Apache and installed wo_pcgi.py I can start the primary zope install w/o problems, so I know it works. However I can't seem to point to the instance anywhere in the startup scripts. I'm beginning to suspect that running multiple instances is a w_pcgi/Apache thing, and hoping that's not the case. TIA, Sean swduffy(a)unmc.edu

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Zpdf Document Question
by Asad Habib 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hello. Does anyone know how to remove the Zpdf Version Number(it reads 'Zpdf v0.1') from the footer of a pdf document generated using the Zpdf Document Product? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Asad

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Plone?
by mh 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Is this an appropriate place to ask Plone questions?

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PDF on the fly
by Stephan Goeldi 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

I want to create PDF versions of a webpage on the fly. It must be possible to use a specific type 1 postscript font file. I installed htmldoc as suggested by Maik Jablonski in his very good howto (http://zope.org/Members/mjablonski/howtoPDF) It works, but it doesn't support stylesheets. I cannot figure out how to add a new font. I installed ReportLab and it works too. What I don't know and didn't find in the documentation of ReportLab is: - can I use ReportLab to CONVERT to pdf instead of CREATING pdf? - is there an easy way (as with htmldoc) to do this?

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TextIndexNG windows extensions for Zope 2.7
by Vladimir Petrovic 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hello, Has anybody compiled TextIndexNG windows extensions for python2.3 that comes with Zope 2.7 binary distribution on Windows ? I've tried to compile them, but setup.py wants to have the same version of Visual studio that is used for compiling Zope which I don't have. And I'm not sure how to compile the whole Zope on Windows. Thanks, Vladimir

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RE: [Zope] Zope Requests - POST vs. GET
by Passin, Tom 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

[Tino Wildenhain ] > > IMHO, the two should not be mixed because they have different > > semantics. A POST is intended for sending information to > the server > > to apply to the resource designated by the current uri, a > > GET is for > > requesting a new page designated by the uri. I think it is wise to > > keep them separated. > > I dont think so. Its just a hindering decision to implement > it this way. Better approach would have been to implement a > GET and a POST namespace in REQUEST as well as mirroring the > variables into Form as they are now. > > After all, a QUERY string in a Post URL is just valid > information. I really cant see why Zope does not let us > access it. And I'm very into standards. > But they are not quite on the same footing so far as information goes - there is supposed to be a semantic difference. A GET is supposed to be idempotent, a POST need not be. For example, if you GET an airline schedule twice in a row, it should not have changed because of the effect of any data you sent with the GET. If you transfer money from one bank account to another using a POST, you expect to see a change in the state of the resource (your bank account's representation). True, a POST does not _have_ to make such a change. But a GET is NEVER supposed to. When you mix up form variables between a POSTed form and query string parameters,the procedssor ought to assume that all the parameters might have come with the POST. So in effect the semantics of the GET have been changed. That is what I am against - even if it is convenient once in a while. Cheers, Tom P

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SERVER _ VERSION
by Rakotomandimby Mihamina 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hi all , i saw that some tools can easily fingerprint my Web server . I would like to change ( not to hide i'm using Zope but just to add some funny informations ) the String Zope returns when they fingerprint it . I would also edit the returned string of SERVSER_VERSION environnement variable . The tool i'm talking about is ( ie : ) http://uptime.netcraft.com/ -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina

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by request＠global-submit.com 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

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date formatting question
by Kate Legere 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

I'm passing a date variable to a MySQL database and want to send the date dynamically. In my dtml method file I have <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('now',ZopeTime().ISO())"> which gives me the date in almost the right format - however I need only the 0000-00-00 part at the beginning and don't seem to be able to find a method that returns precisely what I want. I've also tried <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('now',ZopeTime().Date())"> but that doesn't work. Any suggestions? Kate

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