[Zope] Is it possible to extend Zopes WebDAV authentication?

mark hellewell mark.hellewell at gmail.com
Fri May 6 17:52:47 EDT 2005


On 5/6/05, Tino Wildenhain <tino at wildenhain.de> wrote:
> Actually, it does not. You have no such thing like a session
> when all you have is webdav. I dont know if many dav-clients
> store cookies too - it may depend on your usecase.

Yes the use-case is Windows Explorer users only.

> Without cookies you dont know if a request is the first,
> second or third time. And just counting per user would
> make an excellent way to DoS.

It would! However, there's no accounting for client requirements ;)

mark

> Regards
> Tino


More information about the Zope mailing list