[Zope-CMF] How to make your CMF portal "Members Only"

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:48:36 +0100


Ausum Studio wrote:
> I tried that and, as I said, the result is a browser's hung-up (IE and
> Opera). Fortunately Mozilla did have an error message: "Redirection limit
> for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page". What apparently
> happens is that the missing authorization redirects the request to the
> "login_form" URL instead of the browser's login prompt, but due to any
> method can't be viewed by anonymous users, it is again redirected to itself
> thus starting the redirection loop.

Two options:

1. delete the cookie_authentication object so basic auth will be used (the 
browser's login prompt)

2. make login_form anonymously viewable

cheers,

Chris