Thanks Zac... it doesn't appear as if there is an easy way around the ZEO problem, without involving another large amount of complexity. I'll bump heads with a few of the local Zope gurus and also see if the Pound (our http load balancer of choice) developers have any suggestions.
Cheers John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==========================================- School of Medical Education Development Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing University of Newcastle >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zachery Bir >Sent: 26 April 2005 16:37 >To: zope-dev@zope.org >Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: ZEO, FastCGI and Shibboleth > > >On 2005-04-25 06:58:17 -0400, "John Snowdon" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Has anyone any thoughts about how to go about shibboleth enabling a >> whole host of ZEO instances... without each one having an >Apache server >> sitting in front of it? Or is there an alternative method >out there that >> perhaps is not widely known? > >We'd contemplated doing more work with PAS and Shibboleth to actually >get Zope to do the equivalent of mod_shibboleth, but it never went >anywhere. We stick Zope behind Apache (or some other proxying system - >Squid, et al.) as a matter of course, so it was a no-brainer to just >use mod_shibboleth in situ. > >We've posted the contents (modulo any specific policy) of our >Shibboleth implementation for PAS. It amounts to a few Scriptable >Plugins to handle the specific HTTP headers that get scribbled on a >Shibboleth session. Here's the message: > > <http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-pas/2005-March/000314.html> > >Zac _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )