I do much of the same thing, although I don't worry about authentication, since anonymous access is OK in my case. Jim's option is one, another would be to see if you can write something that could check Zope credentials, to kind of mimick mod_auth and related standard Apache modules. I suppose this could be a combination of mod_python and ZClient for example. J.F. -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jim Kutter Sent: August 11, 2004 8:56 AM To: Will Smith Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] Apache Authentication Problem Will - This is an issue we've had as well. One thing I would suggest trying is to develop some layer either on top of zope that handles the requests to download the files. An external method or even a Zope Product which reads files off a non-web accessible path, then feeds the data to the web client would suffice. However the benefits of having Apache serve the files is lost. -jim -----Original Message----- From: Will Smith [mailto:witisi@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:14 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Apache Authentication Problem We currently have an applition that uses apache to serve alot of large files out of the filesystem (650MB each). I would like to convert the web interface over to zope to unify our site. I would prefer to keep the large files in the filesystem, primarily because we already have tools to manage them there. I also am very comfortable with apache serving these large files, and really do not wish to put this task up to the ZServer. I currently have zope setup behind a VM in apache. I have created a simple product that lists the files and creates the links to the files served by apache. I am able to integrate this info into our site very nicely. Problem... Since zope is not serving the files, I cannot prevent users from accessing them. I can control access to the links, but if you cut and paste the URL apache will server them to anyone, without even logging into zope. Any Ideas? Thanks, Will Smith _______________________________________________ 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 ) 271 North Avenue Suite 1210 New Rochelle, NY 10801 ebizQ Links Webinars http://www.ebizq.net/webinars/?campaign=exchange White Papers http://www.ebizq.net/white_papers/?campaign=exchange _______________________________________________ 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 )