[Zope] Some tough questions about zope... (long)

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Eikenberry [mailto:jae@kavi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 6:03 PM
> To: Ronald Offerman
> Cc: Michel Pelletier; Tony McDonald; zope@zope.org;
> ron@heaven.rotflol.cx
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Some tough questions about zope... (long) 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Ronald Offerman wrote:
> 
> > > also a rather powerful language for being so simple).  
> Just leave your
> > > PHP stuff in your documents; Zope will parse out the DTML 
> and return it
> > > to the server, which will parse out the PHP stuff and 
> return it to the
> > > browser.  In fact, you can probably make DTML and PHP 
> work together
> > > nicely and simplify much of your PHP code.  In the 
> quickie case you
> > > don't need to change your PHP.
> > 
> > If this would work (having Apache parse the PHP code in the pages
> > returned by Zope), you would save me a lot of painfull converting
> > working PHP code (mainly database related) and I would 
> gradually convert
> > from PHP/Apache to Zope/Python/Apache. 
> 
> This can't be done currently. I researched this a while back, 
> trying to
> get server side includes to work. There's actually an entry 
> in the Apache
> FAQ about it:
> 
> """
> 9.How can I have my script output parsed? 
> 
>      So you want to include SSI directives in the output from your CGI
>      script, but can't figure out how to do it? The short 
> answer is "you
>      can't." This is potentially a security liability and, more
>      importantly, it can not be cleanly implemented under the current
>      server API. The best workaround is for your script 
> itself to do what
>      the SSIs would be doing. After all, it's generating the 
> rest of the
>      content. 
> 
>      This is a feature The Apache Group hopes to add in the next major
>      release after 1.3. 
> """
> 
> Though this is about SSI, it basically means (I believe) that 
> apache can't
> take back the output of a CGI for additional module handling.
> 
> ---

Well paint me blue and call me a liar.  At least it's planned.

Michel

> 
> John Eikenberry
> [jae@kavi.com - http://taos.kavi.com/~jae/] 
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