[Zope3-dev] Re: Need to get more involved in Web SIG (was Re: Fixing ZServer bugs?)

[Jim Fulton]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote at 2006-12-19 11:54 -0500:
>> ...
>> I made a mistake several years ago when I decided to (have Amos)
>> implement FTP over ZPublisher. The Zope publisher is a CGI-inspired
>> HTTP-based and thus stateless API. It is a poor fit for FTP and I
>> overgeneralized.
> 
> Why do you think so?

Because FTP is a stateful protocol and HTTP isn't.

> I implemented a ZServer based NNTP server over ZPublisher
> within a few days -- and did not have the feeling that
> I need to stress ZPublisher.

I don't know anything about NNTP.


> Instead, I was pleased that I could use authentication, request logging,
> request profiling, transaction handling, error handling -- all
> features either in core ZPublisher or added by us.

One could still use and benefit from many of the frameworks in Zope
without using ZPublisher.

Jim

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