TwistedZopeOpenSpaceTalk

TwistedZopeWebServer

... based on the work done by Donovan and Chris during the sprint, which Duncan & I mostly watched.

Status:

• it basically works including authentication and POST
• it's still a toy

Motivation:

• We're nuts!
• we wanted to play with Twisted and hadn't found a good excuse yet
• We puke at^H^H^H^H^H^H^H dislike ZServer

Why this is stupid:

• Itamar thinks it's a dumb idea, ask him
• Zope 3 has a nice http server, backport that

Why this is cool anyway:

• it's tiny, simple, and it works with no dependency on ZServer at all

SFTP to Zope via Twisted

• useful idea and it works!
• about 1000 lines, not counting bundled stuff (ZConfig?, zdaemon)
• by Zope Corp
• available from cvs: http://cvs.zope.org/Packages/SFTPGateway/
• requires Twisted 1.2.1 alpha or greater (1.2.0's sftp is totally broken)
• ftp is broken on Zope HEAD (pre-2.8), use zope 2.7

HTTP server replacement for Zope3

• Itamar did this a long time ago
• Itamar says there's no real point to it
• I don't know squat about this so Anthony should smack me now

SSH to a zope interactive debugger

• would be really handy ... no longer need a system account to debug a remote zope
• should be easy and fun to write
• easiest implementation: ssh server is a ZEO client

Other Protocols

more twisted protocols that zope does not support:

• Jabber
• SIP
• IMAP
• NNTP
• SOCKSv4? (server only)
• IRC
• telnet
• POP3
• AOL's instant messaging TOC
• OSCAR, used by AIM as well as ICQ (client only)
• DNS
• MouseMan?
• finger
• Echo, discard, chargen and friends
• Twisted Perspective Broker

Other than protocols...

there is stuff from twisted that might be useful with zope:

• nevow templates - much simpler than ZPT, offload more work to python
• jelly - like pickle but designed to be more secure