[Zope] Zope, FTP, and Remote Access Alternatives

[hpinson@indepthl.com]

Hi. An increasing number of our associates are experiencing NAT 
related FTP issues with Zope.

A second emerging problem is a requirement in some environments to 
use SSH/Secure FTP for server access.

We have not had good results in surmounting these issues, sometimes 
passive FTP is a solution, sometimes not, moving one side out of the 
firewall is not an option usually, and we cannot open a large hole in 
our firewall to open a randomly chosen data port (assuming I'm 
understanding the problem correctly).  SSH/SFTP only seems to add to 
the complexity.  We have had mixed results with WebDAV.  The external 
Editor product works great, it is difficult to convince our 
Dreamweaver-centric developers even to try it.  

Are these issues being considered in upcoming versions of Zope?  What 
about alternatives to FTP file access?  Also, why do these NAT-
realated problems not seem to be issues with standard FTP servers 
like proftpd or the MS FTP server, which we use for our static 
websites?

Many questions... Any general thoughts on handling this would be 
appreciated.  Thanks.

Harlow Pinson
Indepth Learning
Email: hpinson@indepthl.com 
Web: http://www.indepthl.com
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