Hey Chas,

I'm currently writing HTTP auth for lift, so watch this space :-)

It's unfortunatly pretty complex, so is taking longer than I'd hoped.  
I'm impletmenting Basic and Digest auth; the latter being the most  
secure.

Cheers, Tim

Sent from my iPhone

On 18 Nov 2008, at 02:21, "Charles F. Munat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> One thing I'm working on is a two-part application that involves a  
> Lift
> interface app and a REST CRUD back end. I plan to do the back end in
> Lift as well.
>
> One reason for the separation is that it allows me to build other  
> front
> ends for the web service (a desktop app, something on the iPhone, an
> Android app, etc.). Another reason is that the data model is pretty
> complicated, and instantiating a lot of objects is not really  
> necessary.
> If I can handle the back end as just data, rather than objects,  
> passing
> it in and out using XML, that would be faster and easier, I think.  
> And I
> could use an XML database to store the data.
>
> A big issue, of course, is authentication and authorization. I'm
> wondering if anyone else here is doing web services and if so how  
> you're
> handling authentication/authorization. Are you using Lift, or are you
> handling it through the container. Can anyone talk about pros/cons of
> the different methods? Suggestions?
>
> We're thinking about using Berkeley DB XML as the database. Anyone  
> tried
> that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chas.
>
> >
>

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