Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: XML-RPC System for User Log In

Author:Ken MacLeod
Posted:9/10/2000; 7:09:58 AM
Topic:Biggest barrier to building a community in Manila
Msg #:21103 (In response to 21092)
Prev/Next:21102 / 21104

This would be much easier if username/password were moved down to the protocol level and were settable as either part of the URL (http://username:password@site/RPC2) or when the XML-RPC connection is made (connect(URL); setuserpw(username,pw)).

Right now, Userland provided APIs follow the convention of having username/password as the first two argument on many calls. To have XML-RPC client code "pretend" to do this at connection level, so your application can set it once and forget it, your XML-RPC library can keep a list of which APIs use user/pw and which don't.

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