[ZCM] [ZC] 1222/ 8 Resolve "Help system : Zope Api doc requires authentication"

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Issue #1222 Update (Resolve) "Help system : Zope Api doc requires authentication"
 Status Resolved, Zope/bug medium
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= Resolve - Entry #8 by jens on May 4, 2004 3:15 pm

 Status: Pending => Resolved

Done.

jens

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= Comment - Entry #7 by yuppie on May 4, 2004 3:11 pm

Fixed. Could please someone close this issue?
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= Comment - Entry #6 by yuppie on May 4, 2004 12:43 pm

Adding security declarations in APIHelpTopic.py seems to resolve this issue. I'll soon check in a fix.
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= Edit - Entry #5 by chrisw on Apr 1, 2004 4:39 pm

 Changes: submitter email, edited transcript, revised title, new comment

Why do people have such trouble with the word authentication? ;-)
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= Comment - Entry #4 by jmr on Mar 31, 2004 3:23 pm

Also still exists on 2.7.0 on FreeBSD 4.9, python 2.3.2.  In addition, this seems to be the same bug as 1205, which was closed.
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= Comment - Entry #3 by gillou on Mar 6, 2004 8:13 am

Investigating somehow deeper in that bug, the following scenario will help experts of HelpSys to find what's going on...

1/ Add following files ("zztest1.py" and "zztest2") to $SOFTWARE_HOME\Products\OFSP\help :

<zztest1.py>
"""
zztest1

  You can view this doc
"""
</zztest1.py>

<zztest2.py>
"""
zztest2

  This will raise an Unauthorized error,
  apparently raised from the dummy function 
  below:-(
"""

def dummy(somearg):
    """"Useless docstring
    """"
</zztest2.py>

2/ Restart your Zope instance

3/ Browse the Help system to "Zope Help / API Reference / zztest1"
--> OK

4/ Browse the Help system to "Zope Help / API Reference / zztest2"
--> Unauthorized is raised, event a root Manager authentication fails :-(

Note : this has been don on a WinXP box, yet untested under a Unix (like) box.
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= Comment - Entry #2 by mjablonski on Feb 12, 2004 2:58 am

This problem still exists with the final release of Zope 2.7. 
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= Request - Entry #1 by gillou on Feb 9, 2004 5:49 am

Viewing Zope API docs requires authentication.

Scenario :

1/ log in as root manager

2/ click "help" from anywhere (folder for instance)

3/ browse the help tree to "Zope help > API Reference > (any topic)"

This raises the authentication box, so nobody can view that help.
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