[Zope] No stack trace returned on XMLRPC call

Jay, Dylan djay@avaya.com
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:33:10 +1000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de]
> Sent: Friday, 30 August 2002 3:15 AM
> To: djay@avaya.com
> Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: RE: [Zope] No stack trace returned on XMLRPC call
> 
> 
> Jay, Dylan writes:
>  > ...
>  > This post wasn't really about that however, I was more 
> asking if anyone knew
>  > why no strack trace was being returned for the XMLRPC 
> call, when under
>  > normal circumstances it is? Should I raise a bug for this?
> In Zope before 2.6, stack traces are badly integrated -- outside
> of the HTML tag. Many people complain that they are shown
> at all (because of security/privacy concerns).
> 
> It is quite natural that in the normal case (unless you are 
> debugging),

I AM DEBUGGING (-D option is ON!).

Is this a bug, yes or no?


> XML-RPC responses should not contain track traces as the 
> XML-RPC client
> can not do much with them.
> 
> I think, with Zope 2.6, you can much better control what happens
> with exceptions and the associated stack traces, at least for
> normal HTTP requests (not sure about XML-RPC, but hopefully 
> there, too).
> You should be able to log the stack traces on the server and
> analyse them in the servers log file.

Yes, I'm awaiting this earerly. No win32 binary yet however.