[Zope] Mozilla for mgmt

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:29:37 +1000


>>> Anthony Baxter wrote
> > > Has anyone besides me had trouble using Mozilla to manage Zope ie access
> > > the control panel via log in?
> > There are regressions in recent Mozilla builds that prevent the authenticat

oops. I forgot this other one that I found. Mozilla writes the 
username/password with a trailing null. I just logged it:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42782

A patch that allows Zope to workaround this:

diff -u -r1.110 User.py
--- User.py     2000/06/05 15:31:43     1.110
+++ User.py     2000/06/16 06:26:32
@@ -439,6 +439,8 @@
         if lower(auth[:6])!='basic ':
             return None
         name,password=tuple(split(decodestring(split(auth)[-1]), ':', 1))
+        if password[-1] == '\000':
+           password = password[:-1]
 
         # Check for superuser
         super=self._super