[Zope] Intercept request

[Andreas Jung]

--On 7. Januar 2008 08:35:50 -0600 David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2008 8:23 AM, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On 7. Januar 2008 08:18:14 -0600 David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 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:
>> >>
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I want to show different things to different viewers based on their
>> >> > IP addresses. How can I do this?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the reply.
>> >
>> > The use case is that my client wants to block a range of IP addresses
>> > from being able to view their site.
>>
>> 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).

This issue is a configuration and not an application issue. So it basically
does not belong into Zope.

-aj

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