[Mailman-Developers] Re: Question about REST API for Mailman 3

[Abhilash Raj]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Shashikanth Komandoor writes:
> 
>  >   I am developing an application on which just clicking on submit
>  > with some input values loaded should invoke the REST API of Mailman 3
>  > running on another server and do some activities like adding of user(s) to
>  > a list or removal of user(s) from a list or so.
>  > 
>  >   Is it possible to do so ? If so, how ?
> 
> It's possible.  The REST API itself is documented here:
> 
> https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/rest/docs/rest.html
> 
> I haven't tried the examples with curl, but they probably should
> work; I don't think you need any special HTTP headers or anything like
> that.

Except for HTTP basic auth, which  you can usually just do with "--user" 
parameter in curl instead of creating the "Authorization" header and it's 
base64 encoded username password value yourself.

> 
> The "another server" part is possible, but a bad idea in production
> because the REST API is 100% not authenticated.  Security is
> maintained by running any applications that access the REST API on the
> same host.  If you really want to do this, it's explained in this
> thread:
> 
> https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-us...@mailman3.org/thread/M24EAWD7VK6PHDJVWI76XIXBI225FRF6/
> 
> Note that the context of this thread is a development environment and
> the idea is to restrict access to a small LAN.
> 
> Steve
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[Mailman-Developers] Re: Question about REST API for Mailman 3

[Shashikanth Komandoor]

Is it possible through CURL command in combination with some other
parameters?

If possible please mention an example of adding a member to a mailman 2 DL.

I am really clueless.


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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:19 PM Shashikanth Komandoor <
shashikanth.komand...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi team,
>
>   I am developing an application on which just clicking on submit
> with some input values loaded should invoke the REST API of Mailman 3
> running on another server and do some activities like adding of user(s) to
> a list or removal of user(s) from a list or so.
>
>   Is it possible to do so ? If so, how ?
>
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