[Zope] - Authenication problems when on webhost?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:51 PM 12/8/98 -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>
>Is their a simple way to test if it is already (automatically) available
>without asking tech support?

Yeah.  Put a CGI script in a password-protected directory and have it print
out the environment.  If there's an HTTP_AUTHORIZATION variable that says
"Basic" followed by some base64 gibberish, you're in.


>>This means that ZOPE should run virtually out of the box on a Hiway or
>>RapidSite
>>host.  A couple of points to mention, though...  Hiway does not allow you
>>to run your own servers, so ZopeHTTPServer is absolutely out.  Since Hiway
>>servers are also periodically rebooted for various kinds of maintenance,
>>you cannot rely on such a process staying up indefinitely anyway.  This
>>also means you need to be sure if you're using an LRP that it can
>>auto-start from the web.
>
>Thanks for the reply. I hope any/all site(s) with excellent support for
>Python/Zope does well and prospers. :)
>

Ugh.  You just reminded me...  Although I built Python 1.5.1 and it's on
all the Hiway/RapidSite servers, and it even includes loadable modules for
ExtensionClass and Acquisition, Hiway doesn't give customers access to the
IRIX C compiler any more, so you're currently out of luck if you want to
use cDocumentTemplate or any of the other new C stuff.  When I get out from
behind my current backlog I will try to get the binaries up to date and
include the good stuff from Zope.  Although, in order not to annoy the
sysadmins too much, I'll want to keep new-version compilations to a minimum.