Hi Sean Sean McGrath writes:

... I have an external method that returns an object. I have a dtml method that tries to reference an attribute of that object. The attempted attribute reference causes the HTTP authenticate dialog to appear. No username/password seems to appease it. Have you read Byan's "Upgrading to Zope 2.2"?

.... Here is the external method "testexternal":

class AClass: You will need (or something like this): __access_to_unprotected_subobjects__= 1 def __init__(self): ....

Dieter