[Zope] Zope and Debian

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Following up to myself...

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

> The problem is: I go to my site.  I click on a folder.  I select 'add dtml
> method' from the menu.  I type anything for the title and ID: then I hit
> 'add', or 'add and edit'.
> 
> The status bar changes to
> 
> "Connect: Host www.twistedmatrix.com:8080 contacted.  Watiting for
> reply..."
> 
> but nothing happens after that.

It turns out that my preferences.js file was corrupt -- to try to get some
kind of 'control' for this experiment, i installed netscape on the server,
and then ran it via a remote X session.

I realized what the problem was when I got to the same point where
Netscape was freezing for me, and I hit 'add' -- and at the exact point
where NS usually stopped responding, a dialog came up informing me that
the information that I was about to transmit might be insecure!  I
realized that somewhere deep within netscape's black and tortured soul, it
believed that it was displaying that dialog for me, and it wasn't frozen,
it was waiting for a response!

So I moved preferences.js on the client machine somewhere else, and
everything works flawlessly.

I'm walking away from this ordeal with a newer, more profound distaste for
javascript, even less respect for the 4.x series of Netscape (mozilla will
rise again!), and a stable way to edit Zope.

Just wanted to let you all know that Debian is NOT broken! (Well, at least
not in this regard)