[Zope] Zope for secure transactions?
Cary O'Brien
cobrien@Radix.Net
Sat, 29 Jul 2000 15:44:36 -0400 (EDT)
> > 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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