Re: [Zope] Zope 2.2.0a1 permission problems

2000-05-18 Thread Cary O'Brien
Kyler wrote.. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 08:03:58 EST > From: "Kyler B. Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>I just installed release 2.2.0a1 on a glibc Linux box, but I keep > >>getting a permission problem when accessing a database query. > > > >I have encountered the same p

[Zope] confera, zope 2.2, and attachments

2000-05-30 Thread Cary O'Brien
With a confera discussion, I can't seem to add attachments. I can enter a file name into the file upload box, and there are no errors, but when I view the message there is no attachment. Am I doing something wrong? -- cary ___ Zope maillist - [EMAI

[Zope] ZDiscussions and Zope 2.2

2000-05-30 Thread Cary O'Brien
I can't seem to add a ZDiscussions topic any more. I keep getting authorization failures. Managers are allowed to all zdiscussion topics on the security page, though. Is this related to the problem with ZSQL queries and the new permissions scheme with 2.2? -- cary ___

Re: [Zope] ZDiscussions and Zope 2.2

2000-05-31 Thread Cary O'Brien
> Hi Cary, > > I'd be really happy if you could try out Squishdot 0.4.0 for what you're > doing. It's kindof ZDiscussions on steroids and should work with 2.2, > although I haven't had a chance to test it yet... > It seems broken. Using Zope-2.2.0a1 and Squishdot-0-4-0, this is what happens.

Re: [Zope] confera, zope 2.2, and attachments

2000-05-31 Thread Cary O'Brien
(Vitaly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) helped me with this. The problems was that it wasn't possible to add an attachment to a ZDConfera message) Note this is with Zope 2.1.6. Thanks for the information on fixing attachments in ZDConfera. Note that the latest version of ZDiscussios (0.2.0) does use Fi

Re: [Zope] Proposal for mail-in to Zope

2000-05-31 Thread Cary O'Brien
> Hi, > > We (NIP - in the form of Chris Withers, Stephen Harrison, and Simon > Coles) have put some thought into the question of how to get emails > into Zope, and have come up with a design which we thought we'd pass Excellent idea. I was thinking about this just the other day. We have a m

[Zope] Thread-safe PostgreSQL adaptor?

2000-05-31 Thread Cary O'Brien
Ok, pygresql is now DB-SIG compliant and thread safe. http://druid.net/pygresql What has to be done to create a one-database-connection-per-thread PyGreSQL database adapter? Given the recent influx of resources into PostgreSQL this would seem like a nice thing. Comments? -- cary

Re: [Zope] Interbase / Cacheing - A thought

2000-06-01 Thread Cary O'Brien
> Ian Sparks wrote: > > > > Had a thought that I wanted to share. > > > > Interbase has a feature known as "event alerts". In a trigger you can post > > "events" which are just fixed data strings e.g. "DataAdded" or > > "Insert_tblUsers". > > PostgreSQL has them too. > > It's not (afaik) suppo

[Zope] Confera and strict permissions

2000-06-06 Thread Cary O'Brien
I'm trying to set up a small site with a Confera topic (using Zope 2.1.6). It is going to be accessed by some off-site co-workers through the internet, so I am concerned about security. Access is through Apache on the firewall with some mod_rewrite address filters, but I'm kind of a belt-and-bra

[Zope] Problems uploading large attachments

2000-06-08 Thread Cary O'Brien
I am using confera to help coordinate some development work I would like people to be able to upload large (100k) attachments into the system so the documents can be shared by people at different sites. I find that things work fine for small attachments, but for larger attachments, Zope is ve

Re: [Zope] Secure storage of credit card info

2000-06-09 Thread Cary O'Brien
> OK, any of you out there who have thought about ecommerce, cryptography, > and zope, I've got a design question for you. Actually, this question > is independent of zope, but I need to solve it in a zope context. > > You have a ZCommerce site. You accept credit cards, and securely > communica

Re: [Zope] Re: [ZCommerce] Secure storage of credit card info

2000-06-09 Thread Cary O'Brien
> -> > You have a ZCommerce site. You accept credit cards, and securely > -> > communicate with a CC processor to verify the transacton. Now, > > Besides Bill's suggestion, keep all your servers behind a good > firewall. One option is to use Linux IP Masquerading, having your > webserver

Re: [Zope] ZDiscussions in classes?

2000-06-09 Thread Cary O'Brien
> charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > I have a problem with getting ZDiscussion working the way I want it to. > First a little background, so it becomes easier for me to explain what I > want to do: > > On my site I have several users (called "artists") that I have built a > ZClass for. This Artis

Re: [Zope] Costs of implementation

2000-06-13 Thread Cary O'Brien
> I am trying to motivate the use of Zope / Zcommerce, and to do this need > some timing ideas - Does anyone have thoughts on how long (man hours per > expertise) it took them to go from no Zope to (Zope + Steve Spickelmire and > Co's EMarket) and to a successful transaction? > > Hopefully this w

Re: [Zope] Images not showing

2000-06-14 Thread Cary O'Brien
Dieter wrote... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I've noticed that when i install images into the Zope database and call > > them sometimes they display as broken link images instead of the picture. > > after revisiting the image in the management screen but not making any > > changes just res

[Zope] Python class browser

2000-06-17 Thread Cary O'Brien
I'm tired of digging through .py files to find what methods a class supports. Has anyone put together a class browser ZClass w/ external methods that allows you to look at modules, classes, methods, and method arguments via the browser? It *seems* as if python supplies all the pieces (i.e. sta

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-18 Thread Cary O'Brien
> charset="iso-8859-1" > > I am implementing a document Library using Zope. It has an exhaustive index > with several thousand topics in an outline residing on a PostgreSQL > database. This works well and I like it. > > My question is where is the best place to store the documents themselves? >

Re: [Zope] newbie changingover to zope from html/cgi??

2000-06-18 Thread Cary O'Brien
> can i replace javascript with python/DTML. I have used drop down menus in > the pages using javascript. Is these available in Zope or is there some > way of using these. I'd keep the drop-down menus in javascript. You can do similar things in zope (i.e. the tree tag or the tab bar at the top o

[Zope] dhtml-try broken in 2.2.0b3?

2000-06-29 Thread Cary O'Brien
I was porting some stuff that had a dtml-try to the newest Zope (2.2.0b3) and I had problems with a dtml-try block. I tried a fresh install and had the same problem. To reproduce, create a DHTML method with It blew up Accessing the document errors out with... Zope Error Zope has

[Zope] Zope 2.2.0b3: can't call db_connection.query()

2000-06-30 Thread Cary O'Brien
With Zope 2.2.0b3, I can't seem to call the query() method of a database connection any more. For example, with a PostgreSQL connection called dbconn, calling Works fine with 2.1.6, but with 2.2.0b3, I get... Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishi

[Zope] Why can't I subclass a ZSQLMethod?

2000-06-30 Thread Cary O'Brien
I want to wrap a presentation layer around ZSQLQueries, so that they will have methods to generate an input form [1] for the query, and generate tabular results if so desired. I tried to create a ZClass to do this, but I can't subclass from a ZSQLMethod. Any other ideas on how to do this (besid

Re: [Zope] Why can't I subclass a ZSQLMethod?

2000-06-30 Thread Cary O'Brien
ou create a ZClass and make the ZSQLMethod to be one of its > methods? Then the ZClass can provide the user interface to the SQL > query and the result set. > > Regards, > Ivan Raikov > > "Cary O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want to w

[Zope] Arrg! dtml-in can't handle lists of pairs!

2000-07-01 Thread Cary O'Brien
Ok. I get a list of rows from a database query. I want to iterate over the rows. If there are 3 or more columns in the table, everythin is fine. If there are 2 columns, it doesn't work. It seems as if dtml-in handles lists of pairs specially. Not a good thing. Can I supress this behavior?

Re: [Zope] Arrg! dtml-in can't handle lists of pairs!

2000-07-05 Thread Cary O'Brien
> "Cary O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems as if dtml-in handles lists of pairs specially. > It does, and it is documented. Where? I even looked through the code in DT_In.py and couldn't figure out where it handled this special case. Thi

[Zope] Database Adaptors and security and query()

2000-07-05 Thread Cary O'Brien
Couple of things came up trying to use the current PostgreSQL da and zope 2.2b3. I am working on a ZClass that lets you define and create tables in a database, so I needed to execute some generated sql [1]. 1) I couldn't access the query() method of the connection unless I added our friend

Re: [Zope] Which PostGreSQL DA should I use?

2000-07-07 Thread Cary O'Brien
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Eric L. Walstad wrote: > > OK, I am thinking about going from MySQL to PostgreSQL for its transactions > > and subqueries. I am curious which DA I should use and why. I see that I > > can choose from: > > > > 1. SQLRelay > > 2. ZPoPyDA > > 3. ZPyGreSQLDA > > > > Which ar

[Zope] passing keyword arguments to external methods

2000-07-07 Thread Cary O'Brien
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Re: [Zope] cr/lf causing spaces

2000-07-10 Thread Cary O'Brien
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Ben Leslie wrote: > > > > One of my "favorite" issues with win/DOS has always been its use of CR+LF > > > combinations. Why? Because all browsers interpret the thing as a SPACE. > > > > AFAIK this is an HTML thing, not a win/DOS thing. The HTML spec treats any > > whitespac

Re: [Zope] Python/Tkinter & Zope

2000-07-26 Thread Cary O'Brien
> charset="US-ASCII" > > Would it make any sense ? Such an application could only run on the server. > Not exactly the idea of a web-enabled application ?! To use it on a client > at least Python and TKinter should be installed on the client. This would > only be feasable in a corporate environme

[Zope] Zope and Tuxedo?

2000-07-27 Thread Cary O'Brien
Has anyone used Zope to act as a Tuxedo client? Is anyone interested in doing this? Mostly it means creating a python extension that acts as a Tuxedo client, and then integrating that into Zope as a ZClass or Product or something. -- cary Tuxedo is pretty slick. You can download a trial

Re: [Zope] Zope and Tuxedo? (fwd)

2000-07-27 Thread Cary O'Brien
- Forwarded message from Marcin Kasperski - >From digest Thu Mar 9 07:50:32 EST 2000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:28:34 +0200 From: Marcin Kasperski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zope List Submission <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and Tuxedo? Marcin wrote... >

Re: [Zope] Starting Zope

2000-07-29 Thread Cary O'Brien
> Costagliola Giovanni wrote: > > > > Il gio, 27 lug 2000, Oleg Broytmann ha scritto: > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Costagliola Giovanni wrote: > > > > How can I to start Zope whit a different user than root and cath the > > > > default HTTP port? > > > > > >Use different way - start Zope as

Re: [Zope] Zope for secure transactions?

2000-07-29 Thread Cary O'Brien
> > 1. Can Zope support SSL or https? > > AFAIK without support of some other tool not. > If you have money ($12,000 us), but not programmers/time you can buy a box to do this from Intel. Plus it is very fast. http://www.intel.com/netstructure/products/accel_7110.htm (Not an Intel employee,

Re: [Zope] Starting Zope

2000-07-30 Thread Cary O'Brien
> Cary O'Brien wrote: > > > Well... > > > > If you are running on Linux you could simply edit the kernel code to > > elimitate the check on being root to bind to low ports. That's what > > we did. > > Which is an even worse idea. > Wh

Re: [Zope] Starting Zope

2000-07-31 Thread Cary O'Brien
Bill wrote... > > Of course, it is entirely possible the user meant something other than s/he wrote. >;) But > that last one doesn't seem to indicate that. > > To put it succinctly: > If you want Zope to bind to port 80 on *nix > you have few options: > > o Change Zope to run SID ** Bad Idea

Re: [Zope] Starting Zope

2000-07-31 Thread Cary O'Brien
ed thinking is that the patch should only lift the restriction for just the necessary ports. Another idea is to do it with groups, say let group n be a "net-privileged" group. -- cary > Just my opinion. > > nitesh. > > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Cary O'Brien wro

Re: [Zope] Starting Zope

2000-07-31 Thread Cary O'Brien
> I've done it this way: > > http://www.zope.org/Members/otto/portfw > > It's also relatively easy to convince a hosting provider to add this, as > long as you have a dedicated IP address. > > Perhaps I should have done a news item when I created this... seems a > lot of people have hacked arou

[Zope] ZClass property that is a map

2000-08-07 Thread Cary O'Brien
I would like to add a property to an object that is a map, so I could use map[s] to look things up symbolicaly. Is there an easy way to do this with property sheets? If so, what is it? If not, what is the hard way. Thanks, -- cary ___ Zope maillis

Re: [Zope] Hardware minimum for development

2000-08-08 Thread Cary O'Brien
> Hallo, > what's the minimum of hardware to develop Zope-sites(only for > development). > I'd like to know because I want to buy a laptop and don't want to spend > much money ! > Thanks. > I use an old toshiba 325 cds (cd broken) (460 bogomips) w/ 48Mb of ram running Linux as both my desktop an

[Zope] Generic Workflow Products?

2000-08-23 Thread Cary O'Brien
After applying Zope to a couple of in-house projects (which turned out pretty well, thank you), I've started to come to the realization that many applications boil down to workflow management. A job comes in, attributes get set, things get attached to it, and it gets passed from person to perso

[Zope] How about removing broken things like Confera and ZDiscussions?

2000-10-18 Thread Cary O'Brien
Why are things like ZDiscussions and Confera even on the zope download pages? They don't work! It would be better if they were moved to a section called "Things that worked once but aren't being maintained so they don't work any more". Otherwise people starting out might see all these seemingl

Re: [Zope] How about removing broken things like Confera and ZDiscussions?

2000-10-18 Thread Cary O'Brien
> > >There is a ZDiscussions that works. It is called ZUBB. > >http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/ZUBB > >But, I agree, old product that have been left behind (the old version of >ZDiscussions/Confera) should be marked and or archived. > >J > > > > Might be better

Re: [Zope] How about removing broken things like Confera and ZDiscussions?

2000-10-18 Thread Cary O'Brien
naZulia/ZUBB > > But, I agree, old product that have been left behind (the old version of > ZDiscussions/Confera) should be marked and or archived. > > J > > > From: "Cary O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:36:13 -0400 (E

[Zope] ZDiscussions for Zope 2.2.2

2000-10-19 Thread Cary O'Brien
Sorry about being such a winer yesterday. I needed a confera bulletin board for work (internal) with attachments, so I hacked ZDiscussions to work with Zope2.2.2. I needed to: 1) Get FileObject.py from Confera 2) add __allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ in a

Re: [Zope] is it possible to import from Excel

2000-12-28 Thread Cary O'Brien
For whatever it is worth, I do imports from an excel spreadsheet to a PostgreSQL table using Applixware. I do it by hand (cut from spreadsheet, paste into data query), but it could probably be automated. So if you then had Zope and one of the two PostgreSQL DA's you could get the data. Drop me