[Zope-dev] RE: [Zope] Some tough questions about zope... (long)

[julian@zereau.net]

On 03-Mar-99 Brad Clements wrote:
> On 3 Mar 99, at 10:47, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
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>> This sounds like something we need.
>> I know that I could use it.
>> If folks will critique this design, I'll implement it.
> 
> 
> Time to move this to zope-dev?
> 
> anyway, I think this sounds like a good idea. It harkens back to an 
> inquiry I made about byte-serving PDF files. I don't want to dump my 
> pdf's into the database.
> 
> If you can implement this, I think I could implement byte-serving.
> 
> Although byte-serve could be handled at the ZServer level, I think for 
> large external files it'd be more effective at the "cat" level  

How safe would it be, to allow any random user to use the add menu to create
arbitrary symlinks into the native file system tree? 

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Julian Morrison
Programmer (Zereau Ltd)