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Feature request - local file browsing
by Milos Prudek 16 Mar '99

16 Mar '99

Would it be possible to modify expected file type when I click on browse and want to add local image type? Browser always presents .htm extension, so that I need to change it to *. I run browser from windows, Zope itself is on linux box. -- Milos Prudek

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Re: [Zope] access content informations & use mailhost services properties
by Service Informatique CHSR 16 Mar '99

16 Mar '99

Nobody responded. So it went to the Collector. I don't even know if this is a bug. >Also, before I submit this to the Collector, is it normal that the "use >mailhost services" >doesn't appear in the security tab of the folders? Each product has its >permissions >that are listed, but nothing with the mailhost object. >I had to change it directly in the mailhost object. >If it's normal, it means that i can't give global permission for mailhost >objects??? >What confuse me, however, is that the mailhost object claims to "acquire" >permission >settings from its parents, but nowhere in its parents i can define the >permissions. Regards, Jephte CLAIN Service Informatique CHSR

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Newbie: trouble getting started under Windows 98
by Robert Wentworth 16 Mar '99

16 Mar '99

While I expect to eventually be working under Unix (once I can convince my hosting provider to install Zope), at present I'm trying to use Zope under Windows 98. The problem is: it's not working. I'm using the Zope HTTP server, and I can contact the management system just fine, a prowl around looking at everything. But if I try to add an object (whether it be a DTML Document, a Folder, or an "Item" from the sample_product package (which I installed), what happens is: I am allowed to fill out the form where you enter object creation fields (ID, title, etc.), but when I send that form the HTTP server never returns. Any clues as to how to fix this, or debug it, or get any idea as to what is happening? Robert Wentworth

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Bugs in pcgi-wrapper?
by Victor Gamov 16 Mar '99

16 Mar '99

Hi! Today I tryed to install Zope-1.10.2 on my FreeBSD-3.1 with Apache-1.3.4 box. After succesfully installation I try to connect to cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage and got "file does not exist" error message. I look in source code and found that in pcgiConnect() function only socket() & connect() are present. But where is bind()?. When I fix this problem I found new error message "unable to connect". In function pcgiStartProc I found that sigemptyset(&zmask) we use the foollowing: while (sigflag == 0) sigsuspend(&zmask); So, after first iteration we have empty signal set and kill(pid, SIGUSR1) from father will be terminate our process. If I wrong, please correct me. -- CU, Victor Gamov

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DTML indirection question again
by Gabe Wachob 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

OK, here's the situation. I have a "login" page that I want to list the contents of different directories depending on the value of the AUTHENTICATED_USER Each user has a folder under the folder 'user'. I would like to be able to do (simplified):    <a target="_view" href="user/"></a><br>    However, I get a TypeError on the #with line (and even if I put in the AUTHENTICATED_USER.id instead of just AUTHENTICATED_USER). What am I doing wrong here? I've tried a lot of different combinations of #with and _.getitem and such.. THANKS -Gabe

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Simulating static URLs, end-user session management
by Robert Wentworth 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

Hi. I am very new to Zope, having spent the last day (with only about two hours of sleep) excitedly pouring through the documentation. I still have a lot to digest, but there are some questions I did want to ask at this stage: A) Are there reasonable ways of arranging to have the URLs for some/many Zope generated pages appear, as far as the outside world is concerned, to be URLs for static HTML pages? The issue is one of indexing by search engine robots. I anticipate building a site where most of the content will change fairly slowly, and where there would be a standard set of views of the data which would be essentially static at a logical level. I really want search engines to index those static views. (There would likely also be dynamically generated views which shouldn't be indexed.) So, I think the requirement is that there should be a way of getting to pages with a URL like: http://www.mydomain.com/here/there/everywhere.html as opposed to http://www.mydomain.com/here/there/everywhere or http://www.mydomain.com/here/there?everwhere I supect there are a number of ways of tricking Zope into accepting URLs in the first form, or perhaps into actually generating some static pages which would be served up directly by the HTTP server (though my quick check of the archives suggests this is an unresolved issue). My questions are: 1) Has anyone already done something like this? 2) What approaches could you suggest to accomplish this? 3) Is trying to arrange this likely to be a big task or a little task (as subjective as that question is)? B) On another topic entirely, I am wondering about the issue of tracking sessions of end-users. (Hmmm... maybe I should have done more searching in the archives -- this must be a common issue.) Various application servers (e.g., for Java servlets) that I've looked at provide facilities for maintaining "session" information (not in the sense of a transaction as used in Zope) about end users. Typically this would be done by setting a cookie or by incorporating a session ID into dynamically generated URLs. I haven't noticed anything about this in the Zope documentation. I'm guessing that perhaps that is because Zope is so powerful that implementing something like this yourself is regarded as trivial. But thinking about it a bit, I'm not sure what the Zope mindset would be about how to do this. Zope sends requests directly to objects. But in order to manage a session cookie (or whatnot) you need to add a certain functionality to every (or most HTTP) requests. You certainly don't want to have every object explicitly worry about this. Is there a hook that would allow all requests to pass through some sort of filter that extracts/manages session information? Or is there some other standard solution to this problem? For what it's worth, I am interested in using Zope to build my second E-commerce site. I built the first site by using Python to generate static pages from a data structure, combined with lots of JavaScript and a little Perl CGI. It worked, but I'm sure there is a better way. I was leaning towards a Java servlet plus templating package solution, until I found Zope. I've been a Python proponent for a while, but Zope is threatening to make my brain explode. Talk about paradigm shifts. C) Despite my Python and OO background, it's not easy to absorb it all at once. This does make me somewhat concerned, as my business partner, who will be a content provider, has no OO experience. I don't want to produce a system where it will be hopeless for her (possibly with help from another developer) to take over if I get hit by a bus. Thoughts...? Robert Wentworth rhww(a)erols.com (aka webmaster(a)tripplebrookfarm.com)

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Re: [Zope] fsimport HowTo
by Tony McDonald 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

>> The docs seem to imply that you provide fsdir with a *directory* >> ie fsdir=/web/srvs-sol/www.so.cz/ppm > > I've tried that too. Didn't help. What could be wrong? > > -- I've imported a directory using fsimport and it worked for me. I can only suggest (clutching at straws here) that having '.' in the fsdir attribute might be throwing it? Even more clutching here - did you leave the trailing slash off the fsdir attribute? hth tone

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<!--#var dir/name not possible?
by Milos Prudek 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

Hi, I like to keep my image files in a directory "img". How can I call image files from lower levels? I tried  and it did not work, but when I use <img src="img/name"> it works nicely... How do I do this with #var ? -- Milos Prudek

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Newbie dtml question ( very simple )
by Dr. Armin Tschammer 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

Hi, I would like to do things like that: XY.py : d = {} d['x1']=1 d['x2']=2 X = DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile('X3.dtml') string = X(d) WRONG: X3.dtml : <html> <head> Some Stuff </head> <body> More Stuff  Other Stuff  </body> </html> How does the right X3.dtml file look like ? Thanks, Armin

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"magic buttons" in forms
by julian＠zereau.net 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

Two questions about "magic" behavior of form submit buttons: 1)The "cancel" button system, can it be made to work with a button with another value apart from "cancel"? (such as "back" or "home") 2)The <imput type=submit name="foo:method"> system, please can someone explain this, as it is the only way I have yet figured out to do a single form with many destination pages. Also, does this behave differently in DTML methods and DTML documents? --- Julian Morrison Programmer (Zereau Ltd)

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