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Re: [Zope] Arguments for choosing Zope
by Paul Browning 22 May '02

22 May '02

--On 22 May 2002 19:55 +0200 Oliver Marx <oliver(a)tekk.dk> wrote: > Dear Reader > > My company is considering Zope for all new web-applications. > So far PHP has been our language of choice, but a switch to Zope seems to > imply a switch to Python. > > I must stress that CMS is *not* our main focus. > > Our first application would be an Network / Inventory program with SNMP > support an small clients updating the DB with information about installed > software and the like. > > We could choose Smarty templates/PHP4/Some db abstraction layer/Some DB, > but I would personally choose Zope. Can you help me argument my case? > Searching the mail archives ("advocacy" ?) has already been suggested. <http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/zope.html> hasn't been updated in a while but may be helpful. And <http://www.zope.org/Members/Kemalus/make_zope_decision> Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning(a)bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/

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Re: [Zope] REQUEST
by D. Rick Anderson 22 May '02

22 May '02

This is actually a way to track errors. We have a site that has a HUGE gambit of forms that people have to go through to apply for a loan. I've caught every kind of error that we can think of, and then some, but I still have it all being caught in a <dtml-try> with the except going to an error page. We're going to have all the people on our floor (100 or so) hit the site and try to break something. What I want is to have the <dtml-except> send them to a page that records the current REQUEST somewhere on the server so I can see what information they sent that broke it. Does that make sense? It would also be nice to have this information when the site goes live. That way I can see if somebody out there in the real world came up with some other way to mess things up (and I'm sure they will.) Anwho .. the lines listed below work great if you put ANYTHING in there other than REQUEST. They even work if you put single quotes around REQUEST. It just creates the dtml document with the date as the name and sticks the work 'REQUEST' in it. How can I actually get the current REQUEST information into something? Our first atempt was to insert it into a table on the Oracle server, but that failed with similar results. Thanks again, Rick Charlie Reiman wrote: >It looks to me like you have several problems: > >1) manage_addDTMLDocument appears to be legacy code. >2) newname is a dtml var, not a python var (this might be okay though) >3) REQUEST is not a string >4) manage_addDocument doesn't take the document body anyway. >5) This is a really complicated way to try and track requests. Why not >append them to a file or display them directy in the the page? > >You need something like: > ><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('newname', ZopeTime().strftime('%m-%d-%Y-%H-%M'))"> ><dtml-call "manage_addDocument(_['newname'],'')"> ><dtml-call "manage_edit(str(REQUEST),'')"> > >The last line doesn't work, of course, as I don't know how to get the added >document. I'm a newbie... > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of D. >>Rick Anderson >>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:06 AM >>To: zope(a)zope.org >>Subject: Re: [Zope] REQUEST >> >> >>oops. The one I'm using doesn't have quotes around REQUEST: >> >><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('newname', >>ZopeTime().strftime('%m-%d-%Y-%H-%M'))"> >><dtml-call "manage_addDTMLDocument(newname, 'Error', REQUEST)"> >> >>Rick >> >>D. Rick Anderson wrote: >> >> >> >>>I'm trying to insert the REQUEST object into a new DTML document to >>>record errors on a page. It doesn't seem to like the way I'm doing it >>>and I can't figure out how to get it to work. >>> >>>I tried: >>> >>><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('newname', >>>ZopeTime().strftime('%m-%d-%Y-%H-%M'))"> >>><dtml-call "manage_addDTMLDocument(newname, 'Error', 'REQUEST')"> >>> >>>and I get a Key Error: >>> >>>Error Type: KeyError >>>Error Value: read >>> >>>I've tried creating the document first, and then using manage_edit to >>>insert it, and the same thing happens. I really need to dump the >>>REQUEST object somewhere when there's been an error so I can see what >>>happened. >>> >>>TIA >>> >>>Rick >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >>>http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope >>>** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** >>>(Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce >>>http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >>http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope >>** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** >>(Related lists - >> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce >> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >> >> >> > > > >

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Easy Zope DoS ?
by John Adams 22 May '02

22 May '02

It seems that if I've started the zope server from the command line, and then telnet to the port it's running on (8080) and issue a malformed HTTP request, I can kill the server. Does anyone else experience this? i.e. % telnet www 8080 GET /<press return> <press return> The server goes down for the count after this. -j

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Using Zope to generate offline content
by Christoph Schmitz 22 May '02

22 May '02

Hi all, I wonder if anyone uses Zope to generate "offline" content; what I mean is, I'd like to use Zope to manage content, generate navigation stuff and the like, but my ISP only offers static HTML pages. Thus, the idea is to export a Zope site to static HTML pages and publish those. (Actually, I'm looking for a replacement for the Website Meta Language (WML).) My question is: what kind of problems arise in that situation? Obviously, you won't be able to use dynamic features like database access or dtml-trees. Is there any Product that allows me to export a whole subtree of my Zope instance into HTML files? Of course, one could use wget to crawl the Zope instance, but then absolute links etc. would break, etc... Advice anyone? Thanks, Christoph -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

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REQUEST
by D. Rick Anderson 22 May '02

22 May '02

I'm trying to insert the REQUEST object into a new DTML document to record errors on a page. It doesn't seem to like the way I'm doing it and I can't figure out how to get it to work. I tried: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('newname', ZopeTime().strftime('%m-%d-%Y-%H-%M'))"> <dtml-call "manage_addDTMLDocument(newname, 'Error', 'REQUEST')"> and I get a Key Error: Error Type: KeyError Error Value: read I've tried creating the document first, and then using manage_edit to insert it, and the same thing happens. I really need to dump the REQUEST object somewhere when there's been an error so I can see what happened. TIA Rick

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Re:Re: [Zope] IDE for ZOPE
by Raj NS 22 May '02

22 May '02

Hi Thanx for your response david ... .though i was excpecting better responce from other zopists in this mail list , but i suppose they are happy with there dreamweaver/emacs/ or plain zope ... anyway i keep up with my work ... well u mentioned it would b easy to make wyswyg in windows platform easier; i seriously dont belive itthough there are many resons. I still adhere to making it platform independent ... well if u wanna play with some codes www.manning.com/grayson -- it has the source codes of the "Python and Tkinter " book . see the GUI building on cross platforms ... itz really astonishing .. As of now , i have Tkinter in my pocket , which comes with every python installation ... so no problem making a GUI . I want to concetrate more on interation of Zope and ur IDE ... My main hurdle is lack on Documentation on zope ( DC are u listening? ) .. most of the stuffs has to b read and understood from the source itself .... yesterday - whole day i was wondering which is a way to taking the object values to make a tree widget .. 1.via zope itself calling manage_menu which inturn calls Treetag.py ( inside <zope>\lib\python\TreeDisplay ) .. thats how zope draws ur tree in manage panel... reasons why i discard it is that it gives me the HTML tags ( most of which are only understood by zope itself like icons ) i dont want HTML i want something like a list/tuple of object , its url , itz icon . 2. so i jumped to XMLRPCserver ...well though itz a think client .. im still stuck how to get authenticated in XMLRPC ( im sure there is a way to get it .. but dunno how ) ... authentication is requred to access http://zope:8080/manage_menu 3.FTP / WebDav : On Guesses for this , though i hope to get a ans soon on this .. in the mean time .. i need some smart answers ;) -Raj --- David Burton <eloquence(a)eloquent-designs.f2s.com> wrote: > Depending on your wishes or requirements to make > this platform agnostic, it may potentially prove > easiest to write something WYSIWYG as a Windows-only > > system in VB or Delphi, using M$'s DHTMLEdit control > to handle generation of XHTML for pages. That would > make the WYSIWYG very much like > FrontPage... > > It sounds like this would be substantially different > from your current plan, but it would take care of > most of the WYSIWYG elements, but you could use the > Windows Scripting Host to embed Python code within > the program, to leverage your Python knowledge. > > That's the way I'd consider doing things if WYSIWYG > is important over platform-agnosticism. If you are > interested in exploring doing an IDE in this manner, > let > me know as I'd be interested in helping develop such > a system (so long as the licence is suitably > LGPL-like to allow commercial distribution). > > Yours, > David Burton > > 15/05/2002 13:59:13, Raj NS <rnshas(a)yahoo.co.in> > wrote: > > >Hello > > > >I'm trying to write a COMPLETE INTEGRATED > DEVELOPMENT > >ENVIRONMENT for zope . I'll soon be out with a --------------------------------------------------- Raj Shastrakar < shastrakar(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in > ________________________________________________________________________ Everything you always wanted to know about cars and bikes,now at: http://in.autos.yahoo.com/cricket/tracker.html

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Rotating -D log
by Grimes, Steven 22 May '02

22 May '02

I run a development Zope server with -D logging always turned on. I need a way to rotate this log if it is possible. I found information on how to rotate Z2.log and that works but I can't get the other log to rotate. Any help would be appreciated. I'm using Zope 2.3 on windows NT4 Thanks, Steven Grimes Database Administrator Accelerated Technology, Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics 720 Oak Circle Drive East Mobile, AL 36609 Email: Steven_Grimes(a)mentor.com Phone: 251-661-5770 (external) 8364-5085 (internal)

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Apache and Zope (mod_rewrite, mod_proxy) and https question
by pieterb＠gewis.nl 22 May '02

22 May '02

Helo, I'm trying to setup Zope behind an Apache webserver and use Apache for the SSL-support. I want external visitors (from outside) _and_ users of the management interface to be forced to use SSL. I made a /ssl SiteRoot object to https://intranet.company.com/ which works great for accessing the site over https (not managing it) I checked out several howto, such as: http://www.zope.org/Members/fritz/howto_apache_and_siteroot http://www.zope.org/Members/unfo/apache_zserver_ssl but unfortuately they could not solve my problem. The problem I have is that I can't access the root of the ZMI over https (i only get the manage interface for the SSL-folder, which is not the thing I would like). Can anybody explain me how I need to make the rewrite-rules to display the Zope-root instead of the /ssl-folder as root? Is there any way to use a siteroot _and_ access the root folder? Any help would be appreciated, Pieter #------------ start of parts of my Apache httpd.conf RewriteEngine On # force clients from the internet to use HTTPS, # 1.2.3.4=firewall-IP RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^1\.2\.3\.4$ RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L] RewriteRule ^/(.*)manage(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1manage$2 [R,L] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8080/$1 [L,P] <VirtualHost _default_:443> RewriteEngine On # force clients from the internet to use HTTPS, # 1.2.3.4=firewall-IP # make sure to rewrite http://server:443/ to https://server/ RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^1\.2\.3\.4$ RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L] # use zope server at localhost, port 8080 # use ssl SiteRoot to rewrite root to https://server/ instead # of http://127.0.0.1:8080/ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8080/ssl/1 [L,P] </VirtualHost> #----------------------------------

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Re: [Zope-CMF] Re: [Zope] [HELP] Portal catalog & Files
by emmanuel.dumoulin＠sylis.be 22 May '02

22 May '02

ok Andreas ... but what's happend to work on windows platform ? This tools are for linux platform ... A solution ? go to a linux platform ! Anything else ? "Andreas Jung" <andreas(a)zope.com>@zope.org on 22/05/2002 14:16:19 Please respond to "Andreas Jung" <andreas(a)zope.com> Sent by: zope-cmf-admin(a)zope.org To: <zope(a)zope.org>, <Zope-CMF(a)zope.org>, <flemaitre(a)fede.generali.fr> cc: Subject: [Zope-CMF] Re: [Zope] [HELP] Portal catalog & Files You can handle such files with NuxDocument, DocumentLibrary or TextIndexNG. -aj ----- Original Message ----- From: flemaitre(a)fede.generali.fr To: zope(a)zope.org ; Zope-CMF(a)zope.org Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 09:06 Subject: [Zope] [HELP] Portal catalog & Files Hello, I use the portal_catalog in order to search files in my zope site ==> Ok, it works great But, can i search inside documents (like Microsoft's Word, Excel, RTF files, PDF, etc...) ? I store these files outside the ZODB using a CMF Portal Type : "Portal External File". Thanks in advance. Excuse my english Frédéric. _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - Zope-CMF(a)zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker for bug reports and feature requests

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Problem with understanding Yihaw
by Tony Flanagan 22 May '02

22 May '02

Hi all I am having a problem with the Yihaw directory product on my site. I am attempting to allow a user(who has the role of contributor) add new YihawEvents to the site and so I have created them in the root acl_users folder and provided them with all of the neccessary permissions in the root directory("Add Yihaw Objects", "Delete Objects", "Manage properties", "Use mailhost services", "View management screens" and "Manage Yihaw Objects". ), they then acquire these permissions throughout the rest of the site. However when I log in as this user and attempt to add an event I receive the following error: Site Error An error was encountered while publishing this resource. NameError Sorry, a site error occurred. Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 223, in publish_module File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 226, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: YihawEventsItem_factory) File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: add_YihawEvents) File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: add_YihawEvents) File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 199, in __call__ (Object: add_YihawEvents) File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 546, in __call__ (Object: add_YihawEvents) File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_With.py, line 133, in render (Object: YihawEventsItem.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)) File /usr/local/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 231, in eval (Object: YihawEventsItem.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)) (Info: REQUEST) File <string>, line 2, in f (Object: guarded_getitem) NameError: global name 'YihawEventsItem' is not defined I have discovered that this error returned is actually a bug in "guarded_getitem", that instead of returning a NameError it should be requesting authorisation. My question is, why is my user not already authorised seeing as they have been given the proper permissions to carry out this task? I should point out also that I have attempted to add an event using the manager role(who should be authorised), with the same outcome. Has anyone encountered a similiar problem? If somebody could even outline the steps for the proper authorisation of my user I would appreciate it. Thanks Tony

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