On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:40:25 -0600, "Michael Fraase" <mfraase@farces.com> wrote:
I don't run a proxy server or anything else in front of Zope.
This is almost certainly your problem.
And why does it fall over anyway? This just doesn't make any sense to me. I can see it getting slow and timing out, but giving up completely and just bailing? What's that about? Explain it to me like I'm an intelligent, non-technical friend. Thanks.
Zope's http implementation is *not* *robust* enough to be exposed to the raw internet. It has a number of serious, and fairly obvious denial-of-service vulnerabilities. Ive never seen Zope fall over without someone trying, but I wouldnt be suprised. Making it robust would involve a rewrite. Today the only way to make zope robust is to use a front-end proxy to sanitize the http conversation. If that front-end proxy also does some caching then thats a bonus. Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com