[Zope] Re: [Crew] External Methods?

[julian@zereau.net]

On 02-Mar-99 Brian Lloyd wrote:
> Zope DTML goes to a good deal of trouble to minimize these problems 
> in DTML itself, and we would certainly consider any concrete ideas
> on how to make External Methods safer. Can you give me some examples
> of other app servers that you feel deal with safety of external 
> services in a better way? I'd be happy to do some looking into how
> others are dealing with this.

There absolutely does need to be an "unprotected mode" available though - the
system designers might *need* it to do scary destructive things like deleting
files. Zope should not get in the way.

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Julian Morrison
Programmer (Zereau Ltd)