Home Original page

[Python-Dev] Re: Capabilities

Ben Laurie ben@algroup.co.uk
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:24:40 +0000 
Zooko wrote:
> I suspect that capabilities are quite similar to Zope proxies.

If I understand them correctly, a Zope proxy where the security checker 
always says "yes" is a capability. Except, possibly, they may be 
forgeable, I don't know them well enough to know.

Cheers,

Ben.

-- 
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html       http://www.thebunker.net/

"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff