Dreamweaver - ANYTHING!- and SSL (Was RE: [Zope] Cut the Dreamweaver bashing ;-))

[Paul Browning]

--On 02 March 2002 19:01 -0500 Ron Bickers 
<rbickers-dated-1015718480.c1318e@logicetc.com> wrote:

>
> For something relevant to this mailing list... DW has been very kind to me
> when using both DTML and ZPT.  It's not without its quirks, but with my
> years of experience, I can use it to create clean standards-based pages
> that work wonderfully in Zope in far less time than I ever could by hand.

Hi Ron (and everyone):

I'd like to tap into your experience of DW, ZPT and SSL (I only
just noticed your SSLAbsoluteURL product) if I may.

We (i.e. the University of Bristol) are trying to decide about which
authoring tool to support for use with Zope. We have a requirement
that any tool must work securely - no passwords floating about in the
clear.

We have found this requirement to be to be severely limiting - Dreamweaver,
GoLive et al just don't support https (good 'ol cadaver and vi have no
such problems).

So first question: is this assessment correct?

We have had some success if we insert WebDrive into the equation - GoLive
and even FrontPage (if you open via the File menu rather than a
drag and drop) seem to then work fine over https, but NOT Dreamweaver.

In trying to understand the DW problem I tried making DW's local folder
a Webdrive mounted Zope folder. As far as I can see DW insists on creating
a .TMP file (to hold the edits of any original object) which then gets
renamed on being saved - but then you loose the original ZPT object
metatype.

Second question: has anyone a working workaround for the DW problem? I
think I can see how to attack it with PUT_factory but I don't have deep
Zen in this department (or any other!).

Thanks in advance,

Paul

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