[Zope] Invoking a Protected CMF Method

[msnellings@stellarcomms.com]

Tim/Marc,

I failed to mention that I did set the proxy rule for the method, but it still did not work.  The method I created is owned by admin, who has been assigned the Manager role.  I also set the method Proxy Role to Manager.  No luck.  When I assigned Anonymous the role of "Manage portal", this worked fine, but obviously I don't want to do that.  It seems like Proxy should do the job, but it doesn't.

Thanks,
Mark


From: "Zope" <jhgfjhgfjhgfjhgfjhgf@hotmail.com> 
To: <msnellings@stellarcomms.com>,      <zope@zope.org> 
Subject: Re: [Zope] Invoking a Protected CMF Method 
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:27:44 +0100 

How about for just that DTML method, change the Proxy Roles to manager in the Proxy Tab?
 
Just an idea
 
Cheers
 
Tim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mark Snellings 
To: zope@zope.org 
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: [Zope] Invoking a Protected CMF Method


I've written a DTML Method which builds a user roster and then accesses the portal_membership record for each of these users to output their email address.  The method works fine as long as the user is a Portal Manager since the getMemberById method is protected by permission ManagePortal.
 
I have an automated process which every so often will invoke the method (via http request) to retrieve the email addresses of all the portal users.  The problem is that the method is not working properly because when the http request is invoked, the request is treat as an anonymous user.  What must I do get this to work?
 
I have tried to specify a userid:password on the http request, but Zope is not using this as the userid for the CMF access.  Is there a way to specify userid/password in the URL so that I can access the DTML method which as I said can only be invoked by a Portal Manager.
 
I've considered adding a non-Protected method to MembershipTool.py, but I really don't want to be modifying CMF.
 
Any suggestions?

Thanks
Mark Snellings
Stellar Communications, LLC
msnellings@stellarcomms.com