Another couple problems you may run into... I have come across a similar situation where I had to make an https connection from Zope. What I did was to create a folder in bin/lib/ which contained my modules. I then used an external method to call the modules. This worked but I started running into some other problems. 1. The socket connection took a long time to create, like about 1 second. Which isn't good for the volume of connections we are making. 2. It is somehow tied into the Zope threads and if the connection is taking a while and someone else executes another connection it would completely hang Zope. I think it has to do with the user thread and it reaching the thread limit of Zope. I have somewhat remedied this by increasing the thread count on startup. If anyone else knows what it could be feel free to chime in. So, what I am attempting to do now is make all of it into a product. I am also going to use the PThreads product to help with making it thread-safe. If you are using windows you can install the dll's that enable you to do https connections from Python, if you are on a *nix box, you can enable ssl in python on the install. I am also interested in what you come up with. Is it going to be an open-source module? :) Scott Burton -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of Dylan Reinhardt Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:22 AM To: Sean Winstead Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Accessing httplib from a Zope Python script On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 15:50, Sean Winstead wrote:
Then I receive the following error when posting to the page:
Error Type: Unauthorized Error Value: You are not allowed to access HTTP in this context
Ignore the issues with your script. Your *real* problem is that PayPal won't accept HTTP for this connection, you must use HTTPS. Posting HTTPS from Zope is a bit more difficult, given that vanilla Python 2.1 doesn't support SSL. What you want is a library called M2Crypto. If you're on Windoze, you're in luck, b/c there are binaries available... but if you're on Linux, you've got some compiling to do. (You'll need SWIG set up before you can compile M2Crypto.) See: http://www.zope.org/Members/dylanr/secure_post for hints on how to proceed once you've got M2Crypto in place. HTH, Dylan _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )