[Zope] Re: External http access.

Michael Haubenwallner michael at d2m.at
Thu Jun 10 04:44:01 EDT 2004


Ben Last (Zope) wrote:

>>From Michael Haubenwallner
>>firstly: try it with a script as mediator...
> 
> I know that works; this is not a problem.  I'm more interested in the
> general case of how one calls Zope methods via rpc, or even via http.  I can
> achieve what I need to (and have done) by using the manage_ methods that are
> invoked by ZMI, but that's really pretty ugly, since one has to parse the
> HTML response to determine success or failure.
> 
> If I have to add wrappers for every method I want to call, I end up doing a
> lot of Zope programming just to make it easy for me to drive it via http or
> xmlrpc calls, and I'd hoped to avoid that by using Zope.  I mean, even an
> ASP or PHP website can have specific scripts added to manage it... :)
> 

i think your wrong here. please have a look at
Boa Constructor (http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/)

the distribution includes a set of methods to access a zope server by 
xmlrpc from boa-constructor.

-- 
michael




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