I agree, remote key is a very cool feature.
Lucas Araujo FriendFeed-as3 - An Actionscript 3 version of Friendfeed API http://code.google.com/p/friendfeed-as3/ On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 09:37, Ninjamonk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you guys considered maybe tweaking the basic auth system to > something like what friendfeed has. > > Each user could be given a third party system generated key to use > instead of a password and then basic auth could still be used and not > tired to the system password. > > If the user felt their account had been compromised by an app they > could just generate a new code and also this would protect the users > account from hijacking. > > I know you don't want to have 2 different systems for auth but this > could be used for legacy apps and for use cases like funkatron > mentioned earlier in the thread. > > Cheers > > On Feb 5, 4:59 am, Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the feedback, guys. We'll consider extending Basic Auth's > > > life, or maybe granting a "stay of execution" to known-good apps. At > the > > > very least, we'll try not to pull the rug out from under anyone. > > > > I appreciate the consideration. :) > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------ personal: > http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- > > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* > [email protected] > > -- Another visitor. Stay awhile. Stay forever! -- Professor Elvin > Atombender -- >
