Hi Massimo, in case you missed this, this is a call out, I hope you can shed some light on this.
If I would like to do something like: http://api_key:api_secret@some_url.com/default/call/jsonrpc On Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:19:36 PM UTC+8, lyn2py wrote: > > Thanks Leonel! I just thought that web2py had something like that already > in place, perhaps needed to add a correct decorator, and I didn't need to > reinvent the wheel. > > Sidenote to Massimo: What do you think of the idea? Have a decorator to > check for a special field or fields (API key related, like API key, API > secret) in order to get a particular / restricted access to the API calls. > > > > On Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:06:21 AM UTC+8, Leonel Câmara wrote: >> >> An easy way would be to have your default.py/call function check the API >> key and raise HTTP(403) if it's not valid. You could subclass Auth, make >> your own basic_login using the API key, use that as the Auth for your >> application, and then use auth.requires_login() in call, but it seems >> unnecessarily complicated for this. >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

