Metadata in zope / binary data on FS,was Re: [ZODB-Dev] __del__ with Persistent objects

Shane Hathaway shane at zope.com
Mon Jul 21 11:55:57 EDT 2003


Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:58:45AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> 
>>OK, mod_ldap and LdapUserFolder should take care of centralized
>>authentication, but how the heck are my content managers going to control
>>access to the apache-served stuff?  Maybe the zope product could
>>generate an .htaccess file based on security settings? hell, I dunno.
> 
> 
> still thinking out loud:
> maybe APE could be coerced into writing the .htaccess files.
> 
> Shane, are you listening? Am I daft? :-)

That's an interesting but tangled idea. ;-)  The contents of the 
.htaccess files probably ought to depend on acquired attributes, which 
is difficult at the level Ape operates.  If Ape could get some help from 
the application, though, it would work nicely.

Shane




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