[Zope-dev] RFC ZTK: Change zope.app.wsgi to set REMOTE_USER

[Jim Fulton]

I'm trying to untangle zope.app-based applications from zope.server
and am trying to figure out a sane way to get an access log.

zope.app.wsgi sets the "wsgi.logging_info" WSGI environment variable
with a user label to display in access logs (presumably).  The only
thing I've seen that leverages this is (perversely)
zc.zopeservertracelog, which bridges this mechanism with the
access-log mechanism provided by zope.server.  Does anyone know of
anything else that uses wsgi.logging_info?

I'd like to use something independent of the server, like
paste.translogger.  paste.translogger get the user from the
REMOTE_USER environment variable.

I propose to modify zope.app.wsgi to set REMOTE_USER if it isn't
already set.  This would be in addition to setting wsgi.logging_info.

Any objections?

Jim

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