I was using Zope just fine with my redhat install, but for a variety of reasons I needed to upgrade to Debian. Zope installed fine (can't wait to see new packages for the recently released upgrade ^_^) but I'm curious as to how one is supposed to use the netscape in debian to edit zope sites. I am currently using Netscape 4.61, as that's the recommended default, but this is also true of 4.08, 4.61, and 4.7. If I go to my RedHat box, sitting right next door, and use any of these versions of netscape, everything works fine. The problem is: I go to my site. I click on a folder. I select 'add dtml method' from the menu. I type anything for the title and ID: then I hit 'add', or 'add and edit'. The status bar changes to "Connect: Host www.twistedmatrix.com:8080 contacted. Watiting for reply..." but nothing happens after that. This is not a general problem with HTTP POST, as it only happens when I access Zope (and only the 'add dtml method' and 'add dtml document' screens -- I can add users and edit documents just fine!) Mozilla on the same machine works fine. When netscape fails, no line ever shows up in /var/lib/zope/var/Z2.log, so I assume it's never sending any query. The client is helix.twistedmatrix.com, the server is www.twistedmatrix.com. Lynx also doesn't work, but I won't get into that =) ---- The Tao is like a glob pattern: It is masked but always present. used but never used up. I don't know who built to it. It is like the extern void: It came before the first kernel. filled with infinite possibilities. [glyph@twistedmatrix.com]
I was using Zope just fine with my redhat install, but for a variety of reasons I needed to upgrade to Debian. Zope installed fine (can't wait to see new packages for the recently released upgrade ^_^) but I'm curious as to how one is supposed to use the netscape in debian to edit zope sites.
I am currently using Netscape 4.61, as that's the recommended default, but this is also true of 4.08, 4.61, and 4.7.
If I go to my RedHat box, sitting right next door, and use any of these versions of netscape, everything works fine.
The problem is: I go to my site. I click on a folder. I select 'add dtml method' from the menu. I type anything for the title and ID: then I hit 'add', or 'add and edit'.
The status bar changes to
"Connect: Host www.twistedmatrix.com:8080 contacted. Watiting for reply..."
but nothing happens after that.
This is not a general problem with HTTP POST, as it only happens when I access Zope (and only the 'add dtml method' and 'add dtml document' screens -- I can add users and edit documents just fine!)
Mozilla on the same machine works fine. When netscape fails, no line ever shows up in /var/lib/zope/var/Z2.log, so I assume it's never sending any query.
The client is helix.twistedmatrix.com, the server is www.twistedmatrix.com.
Lynx also doesn't work, but I won't get into that =)
Sorry, this doesn't really help as such, however I am using Netscape (4.61) on a debian (potato) box to access zope (v 2.0.1) on another Debian box. It seems to work fine (also works using lynx, which is _really_ handy and M12 Mozilla). I would have suggested possible firewall/routing troubles on that port, however that doesn't make sense if Mozilla seems to work. All I could possibly suggest is start having a play with the Zope source code (I'm not sure exactly where, BaseRequest.py possibly). Cheers, Benno
This is a different version of Zope than what I'm using, but I don't think it's a version problem... Netscape is unhappy somehow, and I can't figure out why. It seems like I'm the only person who's ever experienced this problem. On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Ben Leslie wrote:
Sorry, this doesn't really help as such, however I am using Netscape (4.61) on a debian (potato) box to access zope (v 2.0.1) on another Debian box.
It seems to work fine (also works using lynx, which is _really_ handy and M12 Mozilla).
I would have suggested possible firewall/routing troubles on that port, however that doesn't make sense if Mozilla seems to work.
All I could possibly suggest is start having a play with the Zope source code (I'm not sure exactly where, BaseRequest.py possibly).
Cheers,
Benno
Following up to myself... On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
The problem is: I go to my site. I click on a folder. I select 'add dtml method' from the menu. I type anything for the title and ID: then I hit 'add', or 'add and edit'.
The status bar changes to
"Connect: Host www.twistedmatrix.com:8080 contacted. Watiting for reply..."
but nothing happens after that.
It turns out that my preferences.js file was corrupt -- to try to get some kind of 'control' for this experiment, i installed netscape on the server, and then ran it via a remote X session. I realized what the problem was when I got to the same point where Netscape was freezing for me, and I hit 'add' -- and at the exact point where NS usually stopped responding, a dialog came up informing me that the information that I was about to transmit might be insecure! I realized that somewhere deep within netscape's black and tortured soul, it believed that it was displaying that dialog for me, and it wasn't frozen, it was waiting for a response! So I moved preferences.js on the client machine somewhere else, and everything works flawlessly. I'm walking away from this ordeal with a newer, more profound distaste for javascript, even less respect for the 4.x series of Netscape (mozilla will rise again!), and a stable way to edit Zope. Just wanted to let you all know that Debian is NOT broken! (Well, at least not in this regard)
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