Just on a general note here... our system (for AOL blogs) does pretty
much the same thing. For contexts where authentication is required
anyway, I think the magic is likely to come from the technology.
James M Snell wrote:
In our case, the author is selected based on the auth credentials for
the post. No state is maintained between requests. The client passes in
the auth credentials, a filter examines those and performs an LDAP
lookup against our corporate directory and sets the identity of the user
within the context of the request.
- James
Bill de hÓra wrote:
[snip]
I still have a problem with the Author magic. I suspect strongly that
anyone who's implemented this and had no problem in doing so "happens"
to know who the author is already, i.e., it's stateful.
cheers
Bill
