[Zope] Zope/Roxen integration

[Tony McDonald]

People wanting to play with Zope and Roxen will need to do something 
to the Roxen src code to get Zope CGIs to work correctly; it's 
detailed below (sorry, not enough time to write up a HowTo just yet!).


After banging my head against a wall for a while I've munged together 
a fix. Get into cgi.pike in modules/scripting and do this (around 
line 495); sorry, I'm no good with 'diff'!

        case "location":
          code = "302 Redirection";
          result += header+": "+value+"\r\n";
          break;
++added++   
        case "content-length":
            break;
++added++ 
        default:
          result += header+": "+value+"\r\n";
          break;

Yes, this is a hack and an awful one, but it works. Along with using 
the Redirect module (which is a pain!), I now have a Zope backend, 
Roxen frontend that uses real URLs (ie no Zope.cgi stuff in it). I 
really find it weird that noone else has noticed this behaviour in 
using CGI scripts and Roxen.

You'll need to read up on the excellent Zope How-Tos that Magnus 
<http://www.zope.org/Members/magnus/Roxen> and Bill 
<http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Documentation/RoxenZope> have 
written before you'll be able to get a Zope-Roxen combination working 
though.


hth
tone.
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Dr Tony McDonald,  FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project 
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