[Zope] Browser/Zope interaction

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@mitretek.org
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:30:20 -0400


[Horst Wald]

> is it possible do damage your Zope when something's wrong with your
browser?
>
> A few days ago I noticed that my Internet Explorer displayed views of
> Zope-Pages that were clearly out of date even if I relaoded the page. When
I
> emptied the cache and restarted IE the Problem was gone first and then
> reappeared.
>
> Shortly after I encountered problems with my Zope: file structure tree on
> the left displayed different subfolders of certain folders than the
content
> frame on the right. These folders could neither be exported nor accessed
via
> FTP.
>
> I had this problem with two Zope-servers going nuts this way one shortly
> after the other, and the only thing I can think of they have in common is
> the browser with which I accessed them. And there's something wrong with
it,
> because I get "access-violation-errors" (or whatever "Zugriffsverletzung"
is
> in english) several times a day. But can a damaged browser damage Zope?
>

I can't see a browser changing any data in Zope.  Some versions of IE5.0,
and possibly IE5.5, did have problems working correctly with Zope.  You
should update to the latest version of IE5.5.  No one seems to have problems
with it.

Cheers,

Tom P