[Zope] Zope for secure transactions?

[Cary O'Brien]

> > 1. Can Zope support SSL or https?
> 
> AFAIK without support of some other tool not.
> 

If you have money ($12,000 us), but not programmers/time you can buy
a box to do this from Intel.  Plus it is very fast.

http://www.intel.com/netstructure/products/accel_7110.htm

(Not an Intel employee, but they did serve me a very nice
Breakfast while telling me about their products).

Or you could put Zope behind Apache-stronghold.

-- cary

> > 2. Is there some way in Zope through which i can use secure transactions.
> 
> I suspect that yes, although I have not done it. You should be able to
> use Apache-SSL as frontend to Zope (employing ProxyPass). There is also
> another method, which can work and even be simpler: stunnel (generic SSL
> encryption wrapper). I have not run it with zope but I saw it running
> perfectly as frontend to POP3/IMAP mail server.
> 
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