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[BUG] funny Zope conflict resolution -- avoid using "URL" as name!
by Dieter Maurer 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Assume, you have a form control with name 'URL'. What value for the variable 'URL' would you expect in the form action? The request URL or the value of the form value for 'URL'. You will be surprised how Zope resolves this confict: it appends the path component of the request URL onto the form control value! This is for the current ZopeCVS. In Zope 2.1.6, not only URL, but all URLi and BASEi are wrong. The problem description is on its way to the Collector. Apparently, it is a very good advice to avoid 'URL' as a name in any Zope context. Dieter

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Creating static pages with Zope
by Jan Huss 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Hello, I read throw the documantation of Zope for some hours and I am very interested in using it but therefore I want to now if there is a chance to create static html-pages out of Zope and save them in a directory. Can anybody tell me if this is possible. Thanks for your trouble. Greetings Jan

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Re: [Zope] Running up and down the hierarchy
by Dieter Maurer 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Danny William Adair writes: > .... "restrictedTraverse" is for running up and down in the hierarchy.... Look in the embedded Zope Online Help -> API Reference -> ObjectManagerItem Dieter

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Re: [Zope] copying a file from folder to folder
by Dieter Maurer 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Ian Campbell writes: > want to transfer it, i`ve been experimenting with manage_cutObjects and > manage_pasteObjects, but have had no success so i`m sure i`m making a stupid > mistake somewhere. could anyone give me some pointers? The implementation (!) of "manage_pasteObjects" or "export/import" should show you how to proceed (I suppose you want do it programmatically). Dieter

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SECURITY ALERT and Zope hotfix release [2001-03-08]
by Brian Lloyd 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Hello all - An issue has come to our attention (thanks to Randy Kern) that necessitates a Zope hotfix. Hotfix products can be installed to incorporate modifications to Zope at runtime without requiring an immediate installation upgrade. Hotfix products are installed just as you would install any other Zope product. This hotfix (Hotfix_2001-03-08)addresses an important security issue that affects Zope version 2.3.0 and the current 2.3.1 beta 1 release. The issue involves an error in the 'aq_inContextOf' method of objects that support acquisition. A recent change to the access validation machinery made this bug begin to affect security restrictions. The bug, with the change to validation, made it possible to access Zope objects via acquisition that a user would not otherwise have access to. This issue could allow users with enough internal knowledge of Zope to perform actions higher in the object hierarchy than they should be able to. We *highly* recommend that any Zope site running Zope 2.3.0 final or any alpha or beta version of 2.3.0 or 2.3.1 beta 1 have this hotfix product installed to mitigate the issue. Zope 2.3.1 beta 2 will contain a fix for the issue, at which time the hotfix can be removed. Zope versions prior to 2.3.0 are not affected by this issue. - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2001-03-08/README.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2001-03-08/Hotfix_2001-03-08.tgz Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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[Fwd: Amphora light 2.2.26]
by Ross Lazarus 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Not sure why this hasn't yet made the zope list... I just had a quick look and the demo is very nice looking. I haven't tried installing it - it's targetted at RH6.2 and needs PostgreSQL,Apache,OpenSSL,Sendmail,IMAP,QMail and relies on rpm's for normal installation. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Amphora light 2.2.26 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:59:11 +0200 From: Tanel Tammet <tanel(a)cs.ioc.ee> Organization: Baymountain To: python-announce(a)python.org CC: hannu(a)itmeedia.ee Newsgroups: comp.lang.python.announce Amphora Light 2.2.26 - a www-based groupware server Amphora Light (http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/) is a free open-source www-based groupware server in Python and Zope, offering basic office functionality: calendars, tasks, contacts, discussion, web email in the context of a hierarchical organisation and flexible access rights. Both Netscape and MS IE are supported as clients. It supports synchronization with MS Outlook calendar, tasks, contacts through a separate MS Windows client. Amphora is built upon the following components: Linux, Apache, MOD_SSL, PostgreSQL, Bsddb, Zope, Python, Mozilla cryptolibrary. Amphora light is a limited version of Amphora, a comprehensive commercial groupware/document management product for Linux by IT Meedia, containing also document-, project- and message management, as well as a simple interface for creating new database tables. Amphora supports ASP functionality (separate clients and quotas). integration with MS Windows and electronic signatures through a separate client. Amphora is currently being extended towards full CRM functionality. For more information, have a look at the Amphora light webpage: http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/ Amphora light is released under combined Mozilla Public Licence and Sun Community Source Licence analogues. <P><A HREF="http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/">Amphora light 2.2.26</A> - www-based groupware server (01-Mar-2001) Tanel Tammet tanel(a)itmeedia.ee

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cast insensitive sorts using <dtml-in>?
by Geoffrey L. Wright 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

This question is, how do I do this? I seems link an obvious thing to be able to do, but the only thing I've been able to come up with is: http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/IgnoreCase Is this really the only way to go about this? And if so, does anybody know if this patch works against 2.3? Thanks, //glw

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Re: [Zope] FTP and 2.3.0
by Stephan Goeldi 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Yes, that was it. Thank you very much! >From: Jim Washington <jwashin(a)vt.edu> >Make sure you are not running in debug mode (-D). _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Problems with :date tag
by Stefano 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Hello It was my intention to use the :date tag in <input type> to have Zope throw exceptions if the user inputed a wrong date. However, this tags seems to work only for dates in english format mm.dd.yyyy. Is it possible to have it working in dd.mm.yyyy? If yes, how? Thanks and regards Stefano Vedovelli

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system calls
by Arenz, Ralph 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Hi, i' am using external methods in zope and in this external methods (python module(s)) i try to do a system call via the module os. A little more concrete: 1) assume that the the python module is foo. 2) In Zope i have defined the external method call_pdflatex in the module foo 3)The system command in foo is: os.system( 'pdflatex -interactions= '"nonstopmode"' [path]') 4)The Folders which resides on the filesystem (linux)have the right group and user adjustments according to that of Zope. 5)Starting python the interactive way(as root or as ather user) and testing the system-call will return the right result. 6)Also positiv is to call a system command which causes no fileoperation like 'ping' or 'echo' form Zope via external method As you can see in point 5 it is no problem by python e.g no permissions to write to a file or a folder. In fact it is a Zope problem (I suppose !). Is there a way to grant a permission to Zope (External Method Product) to allow system calls ?? Can anybody help me ? I'am running out of ideas. Ralph

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