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Configuration of Apache-authenticated Zope on Apache 1.2.6
by Matthew J. Probst 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Okay, I understand that the "fall-through" authentication to Zope will not work with rewrite rules when Apache 1.2.6 is used. Unfortunately the project I'm starting is being done for a shop that refuses to upgrade to 1.2.6. I have Zope working just fine with Apache authentication; for the needs of my project, this method of authentication works just fine. However, I need to know how to properly set up Zope to run in a virtual domain "container", _and_ to only authenticate parts of the object hierarchy at one time. The idea is that we have a website docs.foobar.net that is a virtual domain on an Apache 1.2.6 server, and we need to authenticate any requests underneath docs.foobar.net/manage so that the world can see the pages but only people in our list can manage. Another simultaneous difficulty is finding the proper way to make this virtual domain automatically start in folder "docs" of Zope's object hierarchy. I've used an Alias to translate docs.foobar.net to docs.foobar.net/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/docs , and it works fine, but I don't have proper Zen mystical knowledge of Zope to understand the _proper_ ways of doing these things, if such ways exist. I have done a scan of Email archives and most of the documentation on the Zope site, but either I'm dumb as nails or just don't know the proper magic keywords to get the information I need. Zope looks great, I've resisted learning a new language but a killer app makes it worthwhile.

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Longs on the Property page
by Shaw, Howard 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

In the stock Zope 1.10.2 distro, putting a Long in a property causes a curious error to manifest. When the property page is displayed, the long is display like 44353L. If the then change any other property and attempt to save changes, you get a traceback saying that the property for the long is invalid. You are forced to manually remove the 'L' before saving changes. May I suggest that when the properties are display, if the type is 'long' then the display code should do something like this: str(long_value)[:-1] This would remove the L before it was ever displayed.... Alternatively, something in the response code needs to be modified to accept an 'L' at the end of an integer destined for a property whose type is 'L'. Howard C. Shaw III Programmer/SysAdmin St. Thomas High School

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navigate ZDB with Python
by Wade Leftwich 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Hello, I'm trying to put together an External Method that needs to operate on several different objects within the ZDB (a/k/a ZODB, BoboPOS). How do I specify an object ID and retrieve the relevant object? sorry to be obtuse, but I can't find an example anyplace. In the onl;ine docs, this URL -- http://www.digicool.com/releases/bobo/BoboPOS3/BoboPOS3.html -- looked promising, but it comes up empty. Thanks -- Wade Leftwich Okay Network Services, Ithaca NY tel 607-277-1334 fax 607-272-3612

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Problems with Computed Fields
by Alexander Schad 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Hello, I want to use a computed field to convert the broken umlauts from a database. I added a computed field and tried the following expression: translate(ARTBEZ,maketrans('','öüä')) But when i test the expression i get the following result: Test Computed Field Expression: translate(ARTBEZ,maketrans('','öüä')) Computed Field Error: (, ) Does anybody have a solution for my problem? Bye, Alex

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IRC DalNet Channel
by Ze Octavio 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Hello Zopians, Another way to get in touch with Zope questions, just go to irc.sodre.net (or another server from DalNet) in channel #zope I will be in the channel and who wants can be operator, just talk with me. Thanxs all Ze Octavio PS: Questions in spanol an portuguese are welcome too !

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ANNOUNCE: #try tag v0.1.0
by Jordan B. Baker 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Okay after I opened my big mouth I had to deliver. :) NOTE: THIS IS NOT ALPHA ALPHA CODE.. BEWARE Here's an example of what this is:  This is the try block  You suck   There was an exception! Yay! <p>It was  <p>It has this to say:   I incorporated a suggestion that except should handle  to specify the error to trap. Also,  will handle any errors by default. This is packaged as a product, is this the best way to distribute this?? Grab it from: ftp://ftp.spyderlab.com:/pub/zope/Try-0.1.0.tar.gz Since I've only been programming Python on and off, hopefully I didn't make any major assumptions about doing things a certain way. Please let me know if I have. ------- Jordan B. Baker -- jbb(a)spyderlab.com weaving the web @ http://www.spyderlab.com

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New Counter Product
by Shaw, Howard 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Here is the updated Counter Product. This contains two classes, one which provides a visible Counter Product which can be added as an object, and which has Security options, and a new tag which provides a means of accessing the Counter Product. Note: the tag should be able to access ANY object which possesses a getCount() and a incrementCount(md) where md==_. So an SQLCounter Product which stores its numbers in an SQL database should be able to use the same tag structure. Since it passes md into the incrementCount, the Product is free to store as much or as little of the REQUEST as it chooses. My product stores only the IP address, and only under proper conditions. The tag structure is described in the CounterTag.py source file, and examples are given. I hope this is useful to someone. <<Counter.tar>> Howard C. Shaw III Programmer/SysAdmin St. Thomas High School

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Re: [Zope] Re: fsimport and permissions - CORXN
by pj＠sam.engr.sgi.com 24 Mar '99

24 Mar '99

Wade writes: |> Uh, no, I think. chown root /fred, chmod 700 /fred, chmod 711 |> /fred/barney. Then anybody can get a listing of barney, but ... Well - darn if you aren't right. Only the immediate parent directory of the item to be opened/listed matters (so far as execture permissions), not the grandparents and up. Seems strange to me -- but seems you're right. ======================================================================= I won't rest till it's the best ... Software Production Engineer Paul Jackson (pj(a)sgi.com; pj(a)usa.net) 3x1373 http://sam.engr.sgi.com/pj

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Re: [Zope] [Project Idea] Looking ahead to the future of Linux .. .
by lstep＠mail.dotcom.fr 24 Mar '99

24 Mar '99

Paul Everitt <Paul(a)digicool.com> writes: > One thing I've seen that's pretty interesting in a low-tech kind of way > is rpmfind from rufus.w3.org from a repository. For .deb there is the official package manager (www.debian.org) but there's a 'Debian Package Finder', which is already complete python :-) On http://badger.alaska.net/debian/finder.cgi That may be easier to convert to Zope. Luc

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Counter
by Shaw, Howard 24 Mar '99

24 Mar '99

Ok, having read the newly available ZODB manual, it seems that I should override __setstate__ and call the old __setstate__, passing it a dictionary containing only those attributes I wish to be persistent. Then I don't have to call my __setstate__... it will be called automatically by the system. This should have the effect of making any item not mentioned in my dictionary non-persistent, which will allow me to accomplish Paul's goal. Now, the BIG question... This ZODB manual is for ZODB3, which we don't yet have! So is this still the correct and workable technique for accomplishing this? Thanks again... and please everyone, don't use the old Counter product, since these tags are going to conflict horribly, and this new product should be much better for the DB, according to Paul, if I can make it work. Howard C. Shaw III Programmer/SysAdmin St. Thomas High School

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