[Zope] Goddamn pcgi - problems with authentication... no ZSyncer or other fun tidbits

[Heimo Laukkanen]

This is just a rant about how I tried to save some money and got a 
hosting from anon Zope hosting company - that offered cgi's and 
allowed me to run Zope behind apache.

First of all I had terrible problems with the http basic auth, since 
it did not work at all. I mean not at all. I thougth I was so clever 
when I uploaded an old Data.fs that had cookie crumbler set so I could 
authenticate myself with cookies via form. Yeah.

Well. Everything is sweet - expect that I can't do anything really 
fun. Like upload content to my site via webdav, since I have only that 
pcgi connection or ftp to the server - but not to the Zope itself.

Then as a last thing I tried to use ZSyncer to upload content from my 
own machine to the hosted Zope but no. The same authentication problem 
bites me again.

I feel like kicking myself. Saving money in hosting also ties my hands 
from doing advanced and fun things that I would have liked to do. Damn 
me. Damn Apache. Damn pcgi. ,-)

If anyone has any ideas how to get over that pcgi-problem, that would 
be appreciated. Otherwise - remember that the Zope hosting costs a 
little bit more for a reason.

-huima