[Zope-dev] How can I find out who visited a URL within my Zope Product?

[Tim McLaughlin]

Much easier and nicer is to use an "Access Rule"  (look in the Add drop-down).

Tim

Craeg K Strong wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I would like to log the identity of the authenticated
> user for *every* URL traversal within my Zope Product.
> 
> For example, let's say that my forms-based web application contains 50
> screens.  They are all protected such that only authenticated users
> can view them.  Any one of them could be bookmarked, so a user could
> "jump in" at any point.
> 
> I want to record the fact that a user visited a screen, each and every
> time they do so.
> 
> A natural place to do this would be in a pre-traversal hook, but I seem
> to be stymied by the lack of authentication information in 
> __bobo_traverse__
> or __before_publishing_traverse__
> 
> Can anyone think of a way this could be done?
> 
> I suppose I could hack all of my ZPTs to call a "registerUser" method
> by putting it in an empty <span> in their shared header, but that seems
> to mix concerns.  Why should my ZPTs have knowledge of this workflow
> requirement?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --Craeg
> 
> 
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