[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] PKI, SOAP with Zope?

[kapil thangavelu]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 07:38 am, Teemu Yli-Elsilä wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>
> We are considering Zope as a platform for product development in
> our company. There are a few important requirements the
> availability of which was not obvious to me.

the below are all things you can/will need to do for your product development.

though i believe someone has done 1 before (product on zope.org).

4. acting as a client just requires use of the appropriate client lib, acting 
as a server requires some work on the publisher, the default protocol 
handling for rpc layered over http, transparently exposes all objects. see 
www.ppetru.net for a dated patch that added soap support.

-k

>
> 1. PKI support for authenticating users using client-side
> certificates (obviously over a SSL connection). To be used with
> smart cards as well as certificate files as client-side
> authentication vessel (ie. no username/password prompts).
>
> 2. Related to the former, digital signing of content on the Zope
> server.
>
> 3. Further related: Encrypted storage for selected documents on
> the server (PGP/whatever).
>
> 4. SOAP support, acting as both server and client.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to the possibilities of having Zope
> support these? And, if a product is not available, what would it
> take to implement such support in Zope?
>
> We are currently only beginning to train our staff in
> Python/Zope, so any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The products would likely utilize the CMF/Plone frameworks.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,