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

[Jim Fulton]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 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?

BTW, zope.app.wsgi isn't in the ZTK. :)

Jim

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