Michael Haubenwallner i think your wrong here. please have a look at Boa Constructor (http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/) the distribution includes a set of methods to access a zope server by xmlrpc from boa-constructor. It does - the "zoa" stuff that it installs in the root of a Zope instance. This is a set of wrapper scripts. I was trying to avoid having to write a set of wrapper scripts. Mea culpa - I think my earlier email was not clear.
I guess I misunderstood when I was evaluating Zope; without wrapping many of the management methods, it's equivalent to doing remote operations by screen-scraping. I'm not trying to be controversial or to annoy here; it's just that I understood one of the *big* advantages of Zope was that it could be managed (and by this I mean items uploaded, deleted, renamed, listed, etc) very easily using http. It looks to me as though that's true only for given values of "easily" - if one wants to parse HTML responses to detect errors and write wrapper scripts to do much of the work, then it's possible. regards, ben ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________