On 1/6/06, Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm five days behind on list mail and I haven't tried Identity yet. > But being able to protect a directory or tree in one step is very > important.
Agreed. > Otherwise you protect all the methods but forget about > one, or don't realize one can be accessed in an unauthenticated > manner. Quixote does this easily in ._q_traverse(), which is called > on every access to or through the directory. It's also a useful place > to set default request attributes, redirect, and other needs the > developers didn't foresee. Can TG have an optional hook method in its > directory classes for stuff like this? In CherryPy, you have the default method which fires if there is no matching method. Otherwise, the general solution is to use a Filter to hook in some other behavior that always fires. Kevin
