[Zope-CMF] Security on Skins

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:27:20 +0100


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> 
> 
>  > So, can anyone think of a way to do this without patching DirectoryView.py?
> I would expect, it skips files it does not understand.
> Exactly what is necessary....

...well, kinda

>  > Amusingly, this will probably happen naturally given that .security will be
>  > listed after .dtml, .css, and .pt (but sadly not after .zsql, where I need it
>  > :-S)
> I think, that is not a serious problem.
> 
>    Just skip the security files during folder scanning.
>    When you process your object, you look around whether
>    it has an associated security file and apply its content.

But won't that mean monkey-patching all the CMF content base classes? That's
even worse than patching DirectoryView.py...

cheers,

Chris