[Zope] html form authentication

30 Mar 2003

      Hello,

I want to authenticate users from acl_users with my own HTML form and a python script.
I can't use user._getPassword() because it's an internal method.
and it seems user.authenticate function calls browser authentication again.
How could I achieve this?

This is the code I use:

*************** ZPT "form" ***************
...
        <form action="login" method="post">
          <table class="form">
            <tbody>
              <tr>
                <th class="text">Name: </th>
                <td><input name="user" size="12" maxlength="12"
value=""></td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <th class="text">Password: </th>
                <td><input name="password" type="password" size="12"
maxlength="8" value=""></td>
              </tr>
              <tr><td> </td></tr>
              <tr>
                <td align="center">
                  <input type="reset" value="Clean">
                </td>
                <td align="center">
                  <input type="SUBMIT" value="Submit">
                </td>
              </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
        </form>
...
*********************************************

*************** Script (Python) "login" ***************
request = container.REQUEST
RESPONSE =  request.RESPONSE
user = container.acl_users.getUser(request.user)
try:
    if user.authenticate('the_password', request): 
        print 'OK'
    else:
        print 'FAILED'
except AttributeError:
    print 'User doesn\' exist'
return printed
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Thanks in advance,
Iñigo

[Zope] html form authentication

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