[Zope] Son of ZSyncer

[Dennis Allison]

Thanks Paul  --

I am putting out another fire at the moment too.  

I have finally isolated my problem to the cookie authentication
interaction although why ZSyncer works and my stuff doesn't remains a
mystery.  I have been working on cookie authentication code since there is
no way I can back off to BasicAuthentication.

I'll follow up on this when things get a bit less crazy.


On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:36:32AM -0700, Dennis Allison wrote:
> > Paul,
> > 
> > I've made come progress on a 'son of zsyncer' product and have a
> > pre-pre-alpha Product which I need to use as a tool ASAP.  I have
> > encountered some difficulties which I hope you can assist me in
> > resolving.
> 
> maybe... 
> 
> > My new product re-uses some of ZSyncer, particularly the basic
> > authentication code and some of the transport code.  It seems to work fine
> > between sites which us basic authentication only but gets confused when
> > the sites use cookie authentication.  ZSyncer authenticates and
> > transfers over links that my "son of ZSyncer" product fails on. 
> > The transport mechanism reports a 500 status to the sender; the receiver
> > reports a 401 error (I think) and does so as "Anonymous" rather than 
> > the user under whose guise the transfer is being performed.
> 
> hmm, afaik zsyncer doesn't make any effort handle cookies, in
> fact the xmlrpc code specifically only uses basic auth.
> Did you write some cookie code?
> 
> > If you have the time and interest, I'd be happy to share the code
> > even in it's currently hacked-up state. 
> 
> sure... no guarantee i'll be able to fix anything but i can look.
> 
> Currently i've got a nasty problem with zsyncer itself... seems to
> be failing when syncing from a site that uses FileStorage to a 
> site that uses DirectoryStorage, and i have no idea why but
> i need it to work ASAP so i'm rather busy :-(
> 
> -- 
> 
> Paul Winkler
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