[Zope] allowing _mm folder?

[Chris Withers]

Andrew Altepeter wrote:

> 1) Add a site access rule in the root folder, that replaced any '_mm'
> items in the TraversalRequestNameStack with 'mm_'

How're you preventing your users from adding objects called 'mm_'?
  ;-)

> 2) in OFS.Folder.manage_addFolder, add an if statement that maps _mm to
> mm_

Should probably do that in a subclass :-/

> 3) changed OFS.ObjectManager.objectItems to:
> def objectItems(self, spec=None):
>    return [ ((id=='mm_' and '_mm' or id), self._getOb(id)) for id in\
> self.objectIds(spec) ]
> 
> This allowed me to access '_mm' as a folder, through ZMI, normal
> published object, and ftp.  I do believe there are a couple more places
> in ObjectManager that need to map _mm to mm_.  One I can think of is
> _delObject

Yeah, sounds like a lot of pain and suffering :-S

> Even though I got this piece working, I was still unable to get
> Macromedia Contribute to function.  It wouldn't even let me connect via
> ftp to zope.  Well, it would connect, but then it would tell me that
> access was denied.  Checking the access logs, it looks like everything
> it was trying was successful (except for doing a chmod on a temporary
> file it created).  

So what was failing then?

cheers,

Chris

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