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. :)
> >
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