On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:45:34AM -0800, Istvan Albert wrote: -> On Feb 2, 10:59?pm, "C. Titus Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: -> > XML-RPC as a protocol doesn't support authentication AFAIK, and it's -> > based on HTTP, which is stateless, so you can't simply authenticate the -> > connection. ?I dealt with this in one of my projects by simply serving -> > an auth cookie with any privileged function. -> -> Do you mean needing a 'password' type argument for each XMLRPC -> function, and only returning data if the password matches? That's how -> I read this above.
Basically, yes. I actually just co-opted the session mechanism of my Web server and returned a session key tied to the connection upon authentication; it saves keeping the password around for the duration of each session. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
