[Zope] access cvsweb thru Zope

Jack Coates jack@monkeynoodle.org
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:01:01 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Max Ischenko wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find a way to use perl cvsweb CGI script via Zope.  The
> main reason for this - use powerful auth means that Zope has.  Our CVS
> repository is partitioned on project basis using standard UNIX mechanism
> (owner/group/perm). So I can't simply run cvsweb from anonymous user ---
> it won't has required permissions.
>
> I (probably) need to auth user first (thru Zope) and then run cvsweb.cgi
> from that user.
>
> Does anyone do something similar? Is it possible at all?
> AFAIU I should grok External Method first.
>
>

I'm trying to do something similar, but I don't know what I'm doing.
I've tried to call the CGI link with dtml-with and dtml-var, no
soap. I think a frameset would work, but I don't want to do that if I
don't have to.


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