I have successfully used IE5.5 and IE6 with external editor over https. That was on Win 98. I recently upgraded to Win2k and I haven't tried it there. Do you have a publiclly accessible Zope instance (fronted with https) that I can test with? As for hiding the EE icons, all you have to do is revoke the "Use external editor" permission in the area you don't want it to show up. I am also curious what "modest funding" means. Does it come with an expense account? ;^) Seriously, I am happy to put some time into this on my end if you can provide a Zope instance behind https that I can get to. I can certainly setup my own, but this is a spare time project, and any spare time I can save is of great value. -Casey On Friday 10 January 2003 06:35 am, Paul Browning wrote:
Hi. Just to report that I've had a number of people confirm the problem - over https IE fails to work with ExternalEditor (tested on IE V4, 5 and 6 so the problem has been there a long time which makes me think that the problem lies with IE and may not be easily worked around).
A fix may not be possible but I am interested in a workaround. Here's why:
We are gradually rolling out Zope to a growing number of users who have unpredictable desktops. We only allow connections over https to the ZMI. The problem is a support issue - if an IE user sees the ExternalEditor pencil icon then they might reasonably expect to click it and have it work.
Might it be possible to introduce to ExternalEditor some sort of browser and/or protocol detection so that only non-IE users see the pencil icon?
Even better, might there be a way of implementing an ExternalEditor permission on a per folder or per user basis?
If either/both is technically possible please let me know - I _might_ be able to find modest funding for such a development.
Paul
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