[Zope] Disabling anonymous webdav access

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 18 May 2001 16:30:46 +0100


Brian Lloyd wrote:
> 
> I propose that there be a "WebDAV Access" permission (to be
> consistent w/the existing "FTP Access" permission) that protects
> PROPFIND. Instead of defaulting to "Manager" only (as proposed by
> Ivo), I propose that it default to "Manager, Anonymous" so that
> current behavior is preserved. In other words, I think it is
> better that sites continue to work exactly as before after the
> change (but that the manager can then go turn off anonymous
> DAV access), rather than have sites suddenly "stop working with
> WebDAV" until the manager goes and gives anonymous that
> permission.

Wow, if you could just stretch to adding an "HTTP Access" permission, you would
haev completely covered:

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ProtocolAccessibility

cool :-)

Chris