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apache/mod_rewrite and user-logging (semi-OT)
by Oliver Bleutgen 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

This is not directly a zope-question, but maybe someone has figured out how to solve this. I'm using apache with mod_rewrite to redirect requests for a certain directory from apache to zope (with option [p]). Now for the first time I can't get apache to do want I want it to, that is logging the usernames into apaches logfile. Apache does this only when enabling apache's mod_auth via <Directory Proxy:*> AuthType Basic AuthName "Ihr Login..." AuthUserFile "/httproot/web/bogus_userfile.txt" require valid-user </Directory> or similar, but the silly thing then also wants his own authentication. I am not able to get it to extract the username without really requiring apache authentication. Does anybody know how I could accomplish that? Any dirty tricks to get apache to *think* it authentifies, but letting through every username/password combination, so that zope can do it's job? And no, putting any of this combinations in bogus_userfile.txt is not an option ;->. Another possibility (which gets me more on-topic) is to do that in medusas http_server (which logs a '-' hardcoded), but the only way I could imagine (and code myself) would be to do the base64-decoding there and that seems not quite elegant, even more because apache's log-files hold the client-ip in this situation and therefore are more informative anyway. cheers, oliver

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DA Adapter for transactional DB
by Paolo Quaglia 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

What is the most reliable DA Adapter for the supported transactional DB: I mean for Postgres, MS SQL Server, for Interbase etc ... Are there some DA that work in multithreaded manner under WinNT? Thanks a lot Paolo Quaglia Information Technology Coordinator Sitek S.p.A. paolo(a)sitek.it

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RE: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

I remember reading somewhere about messaging between Java applets and JavaScript code in the browser, allowing JavaScript code from a web form to manipulate the applet output; the example was typing something into a text box, clicking a button in a form, and having that rendered in some obscure font inside the applet. Where I read this escapes me, and I've never tried this, but I wonder if such a trick works conversely. In other words, what if the applet can pass values to a JavaScript variable associated with the value of a form input element in the browser's HTML DOM? I could imagine that something like this could be very effective for certain situations where people want better through-the-web editing of code (imagine if you could edit dtml in a web form color coding syntax with a feature to collapse blocks of code, similar to Homesite 4.5, or editing python scripts -- what were python methods -- with an outline-based editor that created automatic indentation). Or, better yet, imagine running JPython within the applet (I don't know whether this is possible) to do all this. Anyway, I wonder if this type of thing could be an alternative to either ActiveX components or a XUL/XPCOM based-interface. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Rik Hoekstra [mailto:rik.hoekstra@inghist.nl] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:17 AM To: lee.hunter(a)hum.com Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field Lee Hunter wrote: > > Hi Ausum, > > Do you mean a text field that shows a row of formatting buttons at the top > for 'bold', 'italic' 'add link' etc. > > There is an ActiveX control that is built in to IE Explorer 5.x - you just > have to call it from your page. > > Here's the information from Microsoft: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/ref/cncpt.asp > > If you get it working with Zope (which shouldn't be a problem) let us know. > There was a start at a product doing this (called ZIE) by Johan Carlsson , but it looks like it was aborted quite some time ago. Dont know about its status. You could try how far it would get you, tho see: http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE hth Rik _______________________________________________ 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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Strange Win2000 Service behaviour
by peter bengtson 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

I restarted the Zope server from the Control Panel inside Zope and it took a long time untill it was back up again. About 20 seconds. During these 20 seconds, I started to suspect that the service wasn't working, so I manually pressed the "Start" on the Zope Server inside the Control panel in windows. I couldn't. Below is the traceback I got. I suspect that it means that the Zope server is already running and that I can't start it again (see error and Fs.lock stuff). It turned out that the server was actually running since people on the intranet was using it at the same time as I was struggling with getting the service running. Now the server is running fine, but if I go into the Services in Administrative Tools of the Control Panel, the service ZopeSite is "turned off". So from a quick look on the Win2000 server you can't tell whether the Zope Server actually is running, unless you open a web browser. Strange. It's not a production server and I guess the w2k needs a robust restart with a little kick in the machines direction. Here's the Traceback I got when I tried to start it because I thought it was started: C:\Program Files\Zopesite>start.bat C:\Program Files\Zopesite>"C:\Program Files\Zopesite\bin\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\Zopesite\z2.py" -D Traceback (innermost last): File "C:\Program Files\Zopesite\z2.py", line 554, in ? exec "import "+MODULE in {} File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "C:\PROGRA~1\Zopesite\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py", line 110, in ? DB=ZODB.FileStorage.FileStorage(Globals.BobobaseName) File "C:\PROGRA~1\Zopesite\lib\python\ZODB\FileStorage.py", line 262, in __ini t__ lock_file(f) File "C:\PROGRA~1\Zopesite\lib\python\ZODB\lock_file.py", line 115, in lock_fi le raise error, ( ZODB.POSException.StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file. There m ust be another process that has opened the file. <p> C:\Program Files\Zopesite>

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feedback on ZCatalog section of Zope Book
by Josh Zeidner 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

I tried out the example in the Zope book and found that the ZCatalog aware example only works if you create the "default" catalog as explained elsewhere( must be named "Catalog" ). Am I doing something wrong or is this an error in the book? -keep up the good work! Josh Zeidner

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XEmacs DTML Mode
by Alastair Burt 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

I have made many changes to my DTML Mode Howto and the associated files, which can be found here: http://www.zope.org/Members/alburt/dtml_mode.html The Howto explains how to get the benefits of Lennart Staflin's PSGML mode when editing DTML code. PSGML is a wonderful package for structure-based editing of SGML and XML code. There are menus and commands for inserting only contextually valid tags, it will identify structural errors and help indent the code appropriately, and attribute values can be edited via popup menus or in a separate window. The Howto explains how to get all of this for editing DTML. The technique is based on using a DTD for HTML with DTML tags added and with some Elisp code that extends the basic SGML/HTML mode. Since I first put this on zope.org, I have made the following changes: * Changed the DTDs so that they are now more consistent. * Changed the Elisp code to allow you to specify the enclosing element for a chunk of DTML+HTML code, so that the editor always knows what the valid tags are. * Added code to automatically add "-*-" mode declarations at the top of the file, so that on subsequent visits the file is always edited in dtml-mode. * Added commands to swap between HTTP and FTP access of the same objects. In particular, when you are editing a DTML file via FTP with three keystrokes you can pop to the management screen for the object in Emacs' W3 web browser. This functionality comes on top of the transparent FTP access explained in another Howto by Zope member nemeth: http://www.zope.org/Members/nemeth/usingEmacsWithZope --- Alastair

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Re: PIL Problem
by Max M 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

--- Luc Tonin <ltonin(a)lw.mth.tv> wrote: > well > i m still trying to insert some text in a gif image > using PIL > but what should i do??? using da PSDraw class?? > does anybody have an id ?? > thx by advance Here is an example I got working under Windows. PIL has very limited font/text support though. I got this working pretty fast, as PIL is very well written, but I cannot find a way to transfer my Windows truetype fonts to PIL's proprietary format. Bummer. regard Max M --------------------------------------- buttonList = {} buttonList['02_home.gif'] = 'Ölwechselung' buttonList['02_01_somewhere.gif'] = 'Klares Bekenntnis zur Umwelt' buttonList['02_02_dude.gif'] = 'Hey Dude' import ImageDraw, ImageFont import Image # Set font arial = ImageFont.load('C:/root/pythonScripts/PILTest/phontz/Verdana_12_100.pil') im = Image.open("C:/root/pythonScripts/PILTest/redButton.gif") width, height = im.size middle = width/2 for fileName, theText in buttonList.items(): aCopy = im.copy() # render the text draw = ImageDraw.Draw(aCopy) draw.setfont(arial) draw.setink(255) textWidth, textHeight = draw.textsize(theText) textMiddle = textWidth/2 fontPlacement = middle - textMiddle print textWidth draw.text((fontPlacement, -3), theText) aCopy.save('C:/root/pythonScripts/PILTest/' + fileName) --------------------------------------- Max M. W. Rasmussen, Denmark. New Media Director private: maxmcorp(a)worldonline.dk work: maxm(a)normik.dk ----------------------------------------------------- Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein

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Squishdot with access restrictions
by Ragnar Beer 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

Howdy Zopistas! Has anyone installed a Squishdot site with access restrictions? I've got the problem that as soon as I take away the "view" and "access contents information" permission from the anonymous user in my Squishdot site I cannot use the search interface anymore but only get KeyErrors (icon or thread_path depending on which permission I take away). I'm using Squishdot 0.7.2 and Zope 2.2.2. Any help appreciated! Ragnar

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Response.redirect problem **sometimes** on netscape
by Didier Georgieff 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

Hello, I'm doing a form for deleting objects within our site design (no manage interface). All goes well, with a FORM <FORM ACTION="<dtml-var URL1>" METHOD="POST"> ..... [ we create the ids:list here] <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="myDelete:method" VALUE="Del"> myDelete method does also the redirect on the calling page. <dtml-if ids> <dtml-call "manage_delObjects(ids)"> </dtml-if> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect(URL1)"> In IE5 works fine, but NO REDIRECT on Netscape 4.51 (blank page and the post data still there), while the RESPONSE.redirect **works** on other occasions with N4.51. Is it a known problem, or a problem calling manage_delObjects bfore redirection ? If not, seems like a bug somewhere in the headers ? Thanks in advance. -- Didier Georgieff DDAF du Bas-Rhin - Cellule SIG 2, rue des Mineurs 67070 Strasbourg Cedex tél : 03.88.25.20.33 - fax : 03.88.25.20.01 email : didier.georgieff(a)agriculture.gouv.fr SIT du Bas-Rhin : http://www.bas-rhin.sit.gouv.fr GéoWeb http://sertit10.u-strasbg.fr

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Problem on running the ZOPE by using ZmySQLDA
by Angietel 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

Finally my ZOPE is connected to MySQL succesfully, i can insert, delete the record,but i can not search and view my record in ZOPE. When i go to MySQL it can shows all my database records after my modification in ZOPE. Every time when i want to search or view my records it will promt out the illegal operation message in ZOPE and my pyhon will be exactly look like this:- iles\WebSite\z2.py" -D ------ 2000-12-13T08:34:28 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname ------ 2000-12-13T08:34:31 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.16.4.2) started at Wed Dec 13 16: 34:31 2000 Hostname: ANGIE Port:8080 ------ 2000-12-13T08:34:31 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Wed Dec 13 16:34:31 20 00 Authorizer:None Hostname: angie Port: 8021 ------ 2000-12-13T08:34:31 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Wed Dec 13 16:34:31 2 000 Inet socket port: 8090 ------ 2000-12-13T08:34:31 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.8) started on port 8099 C:\Program Files\WebSite> P/s let me know me that whether this is regard to my MySQL or ZOPE or Python, but i have tried to reinstall all of them, and the situation is still remain the same. Thanks for your concern.

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