[Zope] Intercept request

[David Chelimsky]

On Jan 7, 2008 8:23 AM, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:
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> --On 7. Januar 2008 08:18:14 -0600 David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
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> > On Jan 7, 2008 8:06 AM, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:
> >> --On 7. Januar 2008 08:00:27 -0600 David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
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> >> > Hi,
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> >> > I want to show different things to different viewers based on their IP
> >> > addresses. How can I do this?
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> >> Basically you look at the clients ip address (from the REQUEST object)
> >> and perform any action you need (redirections, conditions within scripts,
> >> templates)...but no idea what the sense of this usecase is. If you have
> >> different audiences, setup sites with different content or something
> >> similar. In addition: using Zope behind proxy will lead in request coming
> >> from the IP address of your reverse proxy. Additional
> >> configuration/programming is necessary to get hold of the original IP.
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> > Thanks for the reply.
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> > The use case is that my client wants to block a range of IP addresses
> > from being able to view their site.
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> You have a firewall for this purpose or you use apache rewrite rules for
> performing URL rewriting.

Our host uses nginx, not apache. We can still do this w/ nginx
configuration, but it means maintaining a configuration file rather
than application code (which in my experience is more
flexible/maintainable). Right now I'm just exploring options, so I'd
still like to know how I can do this with Zope.

Thanks,
David

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