I think session.forget is just for optimization since most services won't need to track sessions. You can remove it if you need session cookies.
On Dec 9, 6:41 am, Miguel Lopes <[email protected]> wrote: > I have call() there, but I'm curious about your use of session.forget() > Why is this needed. > > Nice idea on using the auth.is_logged_in() inside the service > procedure. That is a nice approach to authenticate the service. > > I was having some problems so solved the problem with a temp token. > However, I've just upgrade due to a bug, so I'll retry the > authentication. > > Txs, > Miguel > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:24 PM, mr.freeze <[email protected]> wrote: > > You should have a call function in your controller: > > def call(): > > ... > > session.forget() > > return service() > > > You can expose a function like so: > > @service.run > > def add_two(a,b): > > if auth.is_logged_in(): > > return a+b > > return 'unauthorized' > > > You can call like: > >http://127.0.0.1:8000/app/default/call/run/add_two?a=hello&b=world > >http://127.0.0.1:8000/app/default/call/run/add_two/hello/world > > > Is that what you're looking for? > > > On Dec 8, 11:59 am, Miguel Lopes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> I'm looking to service another application with a web2py service. > >> A goal is connect to web2py and download a file via a webservice. I've > >> managed to do this using urllib (on the desktop client) and by > >> exposing a service.run in web2py. But the access to the service must > >> be secure, so I'm wondering on the way to authenticate it. > > >> On the client side: should / can urllib2 be used in this scenario > >> (namely HTTPPassMgr)? > > >> On the web2py side: is there a standard way of exposing the run service? > > >> If there is a standard way I rather use it. Alternative, I would > >> expose a custom login function through the service, return a temporary > >> token and then use it in every call to exposed services. If there's no > >> standard I wonder if any of you would suggest otherwise? > > >> I also wonder how an upload function exposed through this service > >> would look like? > > >> Txs, > >> Miguel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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/web2py?hl=en.
