[Zope] Wrapping a non-Zope site in Zope

Tue Mar 9 05:39:32 EST 2004

At 12:10 PM 9/3/2004 +0200, Chris Withers wrote:
>Etienne Labuschagne wrote:
>
> > What is the best way to "wrap" another live site in a Zope page or
>serve
> > it through Zope.
>
>Generally, stitch together using Apache and rewrite rules...
>
> > I have a web-enabled mail site that I must plug into a client's Plone
> > site.  The client wants his employees to first log into their Plone
> > portal before being able to log into their web enabled mail site.  He
> > might also want all of this to happen behind https in the end.  So an
> > employee will have to do two logins to get to his/her mail.
>
>That sucks ;-) I'd use something like CAS for single-sign-on...

I thought that too.  Somehow the client feels it is more "secure" when the 
poor user must log in twice - sigh.

> > The second phase will incorporate the mail site into the Plone skin,
>by
> > stripping the <head> section from the mail server served pages and
>then
> > plugging the body into the body slot of the Plone skin.
>
>niiice... rather you than me ;-)

Thanks, I feel much more confident now :(

>I'd suggest just changing hte HTML of your mail software so it looks
>like
>Plone... much more efficient and robust.
>
> > My idea was for Zope to "pass on" the mail server served pages,
>somewhat
> > like a reverse proxy.  Maybe a reverse proxy is the answer, but how do
>I
> > get the client to first log into the Plone portal before being able to
>
> > log into the mail page.
>
>Have the mail server appear in a path within Plone's auth realm...
>
> > I have started writing a "proxy" object in Zope
> > that takes the browser request, figures out which page to retrieve
>from
> > the mail server with urllib, retrieve the page, and pass that back
> > again, but it is a bit slow.
>
>That will be an unending and tortuous path of pain and suffering for you
>;-)

Ahh, then let's no go there, shall we?

Thanks for the advice, will now go on my merry way to find enlightenment on 
"Have the mail server appear in a path within Plone's auth realm..." and 
other tidbits.

Etienne

>cheers,
>
>Chris
>
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