[Zope] Anonymous v. unknown

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Miller [mailto:matt.miller@thelinuxstore.com]
> 
> I have a problem which I am sure many others have run into 
> and solved. 
> I have setup some public folders in Zope and underneath them are some
> user folder protected branches.
> 
> In my work on my advertising banner project, I have created reports
> which show the reuslts of impressions, blah, blah for customers.  They
> log in to the site and can see their banners and the 
> statistics on them.
> 
> Problem:
> 
> I am trying to access, inside these branches, data which is public. 
> Zope seems to demand that people who are logged in to any part of the
> document tree have access rights elsewhere in the tree. 

If I understand you correctly, your problem is the HTTP Basic auth
mechanism, it's actually your *browser* which is insisting on sending
auth credentials with each request.  Since Zope can't know whether or
not you care about the validity of these credentials, it allways honors
them.

> would prefer
> to map an 'unknown' user to anonymous access.  Did I miss something in
> my setup?  I solved this short term by moving my user_folder up the
> tree.. but I don't like this solution much.

I don't understand what you mean by this mapping.


-Michel