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

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Mon Jul 21 12:25:24 EDT 2003


On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:55:57AM -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 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. ;-) 

heheh, thanks.

> 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.

OK, thanks. I'm filing this one for future reference - for now
we're punting on this project.

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