[Zope] XML-RPC over SSL

[Michel Pelletier]

On 27 Apr 2001, Petr Knapek wrote:

> Hi Zopists,
> does anybody of you know how to do "subject" in Zope 2.3.0 (2.3.1) on
> Linux Debian.
> 
> I have already installed M2Crypto but do not know how to use it.  When I
> tried this in python:
> 
> from M2Crypto import xmlrpclib2
> s = xmlrpclib2.Server("https://uid:password@host/")
> print s.index_html()
> 
> this error is returned:
> 
> >>> print s.index_html()
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/xmlrpclib.py", line 547, in __call__
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>   File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/xmlrpclib.py", line 630, in __request
>     request
>   File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/xmlrpclib.py", line 560, in request
>     h = httplib.HTTP(host)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/httplib.py", line 51, in __init__
>     if host: self.connect(host, port)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/httplib.py", line 75, in connect
>     raise socket.error, "nonnumeric port"
> socket.error: nonnumeric port
> 
> 
> Can anybody help me?

xmlrpclib does not understand the uid:password@url syntax.  This is not
how you do authentication with xmlrpclib, you need to subclass and create
your own transport.  The new xmlrpclib should come with a transport that
supports Basic authentication.  See the xmlrpclib sources or the xmlrpclib
mailing list for more info.

-Michel