On Wednesday 06 November 2002 07:38 am, Teemu Yli-Elsilä wrote:
Dear All,
We are considering Zope as a platform for product development in our company. There are a few important requirements the availability of which was not obvious to me.
the below are all things you can/will need to do for your product development. though i believe someone has done 1 before (product on zope.org). 4. acting as a client just requires use of the appropriate client lib, acting as a server requires some work on the publisher, the default protocol handling for rpc layered over http, transparently exposes all objects. see www.ppetru.net for a dated patch that added soap support. -k
1. PKI support for authenticating users using client-side certificates (obviously over a SSL connection). To be used with smart cards as well as certificate files as client-side authentication vessel (ie. no username/password prompts).
2. Related to the former, digital signing of content on the Zope server.
3. Further related: Encrypted storage for selected documents on the server (PGP/whatever).
4. SOAP support, acting as both server and client.
Can anyone enlighten me as to the possibilities of having Zope support these? And, if a product is not available, what would it take to implement such support in Zope?
We are currently only beginning to train our staff in Python/Zope, so any insight would be greatly appreciated.
The products would likely utilize the CMF/Plone frameworks.
Thanks in advance for any help,