[Zope] Accessing httplib from a Zope Python script

[Gitte Wange]

On Thursday 27 March 2003 10:21 am, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 15:50, Sean Winstead wrote:
> > Then I receive the following error when posting to the page:
> >
> >   Error Type: Unauthorized
> >   Error Value: You are not allowed to access HTTP in this context
>
> Ignore the issues with your script.  Your *real* problem is that PayPal
> won't accept HTTP for this connection, you must use HTTPS.
>
> Posting HTTPS from Zope is a bit more difficult, given that vanilla
> Python 2.1 doesn't support SSL.  What you want is a library called
> M2Crypto.  If you're on Windoze, you're in luck, b/c there are binaries
> available... but if you're on Linux, you've got some compiling to do.
> (You'll need SWIG set up before you can compile M2Crypto.)
>
> See: http://www.zope.org/Members/dylanr/secure_post for hints on how to
> proceed once you've got M2Crypto in place.

Or use libcurl for this - there are python bindings available.

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and all the hippos starve. Someone uses
self.Zoo.Diet.buildings.visitor_reception.feed(),
and ends up filling the reception with hippo food.

    -- Toby Dickenson, 20 Oct 2000 (Talking about URL Traversal),