[Windmill-dev] https; file uploads; extjs and click support

[Gary Poster]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>>> Supporting SSL is a huge amount of work -- significantly more work  
>>> than anything else we're considering in windmill. We'll either  
>>> have to swap out various cherrypy wsgi server components, write  
>>> our own server, or move to a new server that provides us some way  
>>> of getting at this layer. I do know that there is a working https  
>>> proxy implementation in twisted, so it might be possible to mess  
>>> with that.
>>
>> They also have some WSGI support, though my possibly misguided  
>> impression from the sidelines there is that WSGI support is not a  
>> top priority.  But it might still work, and might even be drop-in- 
>> ish.
>
> By "they" do you mean sahi? WSGI is a python thing so I'm wondering  
> how they would do that.

No, sorry for being unclear.  I meant Twisted.  The Twisted server  
that Zope can hook up to is their NG server, which is WSGI.

> As a WSGI application we don't actually have access to a low enough  
> level to accomplish this, that said I'm not opposed to windmill  
> taking over more than the application layer if we can do this.
>
> A contribution is definitely welcome as I have a list of tasks I'll  
> be doing before I come back to SSL support :)
>
> Even a proof of concept that works outside of windmill but  
> accomplishes what we need in python would be fine.

hm.  so...you'd want an example of a third party app starting up  
Twisted https, ideally via Paste, and hooking itself in?  The Zope 3  
world almost certainly has one of those hanging around, if so.

Gary