[Zope-dev] Problems with LoginManager form-based login

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> This is a problem that apparently can only be solved by replicating
> ZPublisher's backward walk, which is the wrong thing to do because the
> traversal will be O(n^2).  Bleah.  I guess we'll have to do something like
> Stuart Bishop's backward walk in the GUF, since any enhancement of the
> ZPublisher architecture to handle login forms properly won't happen until
> at least 2.2.

The backward walk stuff (which I don't think ever worked - every time
I fixed one case it seemed I'd break another) has been torn out and
replaced with code that does what you are after. Grab a copy of the
latest version and search for 'WooHoo' in GenericUserFolder.py

> Meanwhile, I suppose Ty and I should try to come up with a proposal for
> revising ZPublisher to be able to walk back on the user lookups but still
> use the login form closest to the URL being accessed.

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