I'd like to authenticate in Zope off of another external server. So, say, user "bob" with password "secret" logs into Zope -- we then call https://otherserver.com/auth?username=bob&password=secret, parse the response, and the user is authenticated (or not) based the response. (We could also try the external URL with HTTP authentication, it just depends on the way the external server works) I looked into PluggableUserFolder some, and it seems possible but not particularly elegant -- the best I could figure out was creating a new PasswordEncryptionScheme which would do the web lookup, which is rather bizarre and obviously a hack. It seems like a useful thing to do, but I couldn't find any products that did this. Is there a better way to do this than this PluggableUserFolder hackish thing? Is there a product out there that I didn't find? Thanks. -- Ian Bicking | ianb@colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org