--On 02 March 2002 19:01 -0500 Ron Bickers <rbickers-dated-1015718480.c1318e@logicetc.com> wrote:
For something relevant to this mailing list... DW has been very kind to me when using both DTML and ZPT. It's not without its quirks, but with my years of experience, I can use it to create clean standards-based pages that work wonderfully in Zope in far less time than I ever could by hand.
Hi Ron (and everyone): I'd like to tap into your experience of DW, ZPT and SSL (I only just noticed your SSLAbsoluteURL product) if I may. We (i.e. the University of Bristol) are trying to decide about which authoring tool to support for use with Zope. We have a requirement that any tool must work securely - no passwords floating about in the clear. We have found this requirement to be to be severely limiting - Dreamweaver, GoLive et al just don't support https (good 'ol cadaver and vi have no such problems). So first question: is this assessment correct? We have had some success if we insert WebDrive into the equation - GoLive and even FrontPage (if you open via the File menu rather than a drag and drop) seem to then work fine over https, but NOT Dreamweaver. In trying to understand the DW problem I tried making DW's local folder a Webdrive mounted Zope folder. As far as I can see DW insists on creating a .TMP file (to hold the edits of any original object) which then gets renamed on being saved - but then you loose the original ZPT object metatype. Second question: has anyone a working workaround for the DW problem? I think I can see how to attack it with PUT_factory but I don't have deep Zen in this department (or any other!). Thanks in advance, Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/