[Zope-Coders] Zope does not authorize on 404s

[Casey Duncan]

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:03:18 +0100
"Alexander Limi" <limi at plone.org> wrote:

> Is there any plans to change this behaviour in core Zope? It's very bad  
> usability when a logged in user loses all of his menus and other  
> user-related settings on a 404.
> 
> Attached is a monkeypatch from ChrisM, but I would prefer it being fixed  
> in the proper place. Any reason why Zope shouldn't do auth on 404s?

It may be a performance/scalability issue or simply that the need was never encountered before.

It seems like a reasonable thing to add as a configurable option. I can definitely see wanting to have it turned off. Some of my apps could benefit from it though.

-Casey