Re: [Web-SIG] Communicating authenticated user information

2006-01-22 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:22 AM 1/22/2006 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Typically, web servers provide access logs that include a label for the authenticated user. Often, WSGI applications (or middleware) provide their own user authentication facilities. Well, Zope does. :) There doesn't seem to be a standard way for

Re: [Web-SIG] Communicating authenticated user information

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 11:22 AM 1/22/2006 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Typically, web servers provide access logs that include a label for the authenticated user. Often, WSGI applications (or middleware) provide their own user authentication facilities. Well, Zope does. :) There doesn't

[Web-SIG] Deployment tools

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Who is working on deployment tools for WSGI? I'm aware of Paste Deploy. Are there any other efforts underway? Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714http://www.python.org Zope Corporation

Re: [Web-SIG] Communicating authenticated user information

2006-01-22 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Jim Fulton] Is Zope the only WSGI application that performs authentication itself? [Phillip J. Eby] I think Zope is the only WSGI application that cares about communicating this information back to the web server's logs. :) [Jim Fulton] I hope that's not true. Certainly, if anyone else

Re: [Web-SIG] Communicating authenticated user information

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 05:45 PM 1/22/2006 +, Alan Kennedy wrote: I agree about not sending this information back to the user: it's unnecessary and potentially dangerous. Yep, it would be really dangerous to let me know who I just logged in to an application as. I might find out

Re: [Web-SIG] Communicating authenticated user information

2006-01-22 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Alan Kennedy] I agree about not sending this information back to the user: it's unnecessary and potentially dangerous. [Phillip J. Eby] Yep, it would be really dangerous to let me know who I just logged in to an application as. I might find out who I really am! ;) Very droll ;-) What if

Re: [Web-SIG] Communicating authenticated user information

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Typically, web servers provide access logs that include a label for the authenticated user. Often, WSGI applications (or middleware) provide their own user authentication facilities. Well, Zope does. :) There doesn't seem to be a standard way for