[Zope] using cgi programs in zope

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Joe,

thats quite easy in python itself.
There is a very good nntp library delivered
with python. You can use it in an external
method or - if you want better performance -
write a product. I think there is a IMAP
product out there for Zope you can steal
code from since its very similar to your problem.
May be the author of it can give you support.

A short investigation shows
http://www.zope.org/Members/jack-e/ImapClient/

HTH
Tino Wildenhain

--On Dienstag, 3. Juli 2001 09:39 +0100 Joe Gaffey <Joe.Gaffey@gradient.ie> 
wrote:

>
> Hi Tino,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I am trying to provide a browser interface to nntp
> newsgroups, which would allow new postings, reply's etc from within the
> browser (similar to groups.google.com).  There is no zope product (that I
> am aware of) out there that can do this, but to my knowledge (I have yet
> to fully investigate) there are some cgi utilities out there.  I would
> like to keep everything in zope but don't really have time for writing
> (or more so learning howto write) a zope product for this.  However
> anything internal to zope would be better as this would use existing user
> authentication (it is an intranet system).
>
> Thanks again,
> Joe.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tino Wildenhain [mailto:tino@wildenhain.de]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:07 PM
> To: Joe Gaffey; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] using cgi programs in zope
>
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> sure, you can start external programs, even perl scripts
> from external methods in zope. But are you sure you
> really want this? Mostly these applications are poor in
> design and its better to reimplement them. Even more they
> might be much simpler to reimplement then you first think.
> Thus gaining better performance, better documentation and
> easy further developement.
>
> Just for curiosity, what does this particular CGI script
> really do?
>
> Regards
> Tino
>
> --On Montag, 2. Juli 2001 15:40 +0100 Joe Gaffey <Joe.Gaffey@gradient.ie>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to use an existing perl cgi utility in zope, using zope's
>> ZServer?
>>
>> How should one start on this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe.
>>
>>
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