[Zope-dev] declarePublic and users

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
Mon, 03 Sep 2001 13:42:53 -0400


Yeah, this is due to a shortcut in authentication.  I don't particularly 
like this behavior.  It bites lots of people.  I wonder if we could 
change it.

Richard Jones wrote:
> We've just noticed that in zope 2.3.3, using declarePublic has the 
> side-effect of making a request anonymous. That is, a logged-in manager, 
> viewing a declarePublic()'ed page will appear to be anonymous. This isn't 
> mentioned in the manual, and probably should be, assuming it's the desired 
> behaviour.
> 
> 
>     Richard
> 
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