On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 06:28 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> 
> > IIRC, we talked the other day about having a new notification from the
> > backends to the clients (notify_needs_authentication, or notify_error
> > with a specific error code that marks the NEEDS_AUTHENTICATION part),
> > and so have the client re-call the _open method. How does that sound?
> > any other idea you have came to?
> Isn't that what it does already?  Its a pity it can't ask for a password 
> based on key.
> 
not the calendar backends, they get the username/password in the _open
call. And the password is obtained on the client part :(

> The current scheme assumes a single password and that you don't need
> more to ask for related resources.
> 
> But then again, the current api's have lots of problems, i'm surprised
> you guys have ever made it work.
> 
well, the problem here is there is no way for the backend to ask for
authentication. But that's not difficult to fix.

Any other thing in the API you find broken?
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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