On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, but for supporting clients which don't have cookies support. e.g. i've
> written Java HTTP client apps (using a similar API to this one, actually)
> but the client code doesn't support cookies, so it has to pass around its
> authentication in the JSON request. Cookies are, for purposes of the JSON
> API, the fallback and not the default.
>

BTW: many SOAP interfaces do this as well. When logging in you get a token
(which fossil stores as a cookie), and that token has to be included in
requests which require non-guest access.

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----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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