This is something that is in the works - we're slowly progressing to move
all our formats (time) to human readable (server and client side). As
some algorithms change (logging), it affects some values that are passed
to the client - things should be more consistent in the near future.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 21 Jul 2000, L.C. wrote:
>
> Did I mention the apparent lack of consistency in the data returned ? Even for the
> same method. For example, set_cookie returns the last_access_time in Unix format
> while the expiration time (expiredate) is returned in human-readable format.
>
> The validate method returns the success value in "is_success" while send_cmd uses
> "_is_success" (maybe to reserve is_success for errors coming from the module?).
> validate wants the input hash passed as reference while send_cmd needs it by value.
>
> You can use a cookie to authenticate for any function. Except you need the full
> triplet when you register a domain.
>
> I realize it is probably too late to change most of this, but I just wanted to point
> few things out maybe the new code will have a more consistent design.
>
> L.C.
>
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