Op vrijdag 21 september 2012 22:10:04 UTC+2 schreef Dennis Lee Bieber het volgende: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:36:08 -0400, Jerry Hill > > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, BobAalsma wrote: > > > > Thanks, Joel, yes, but as far as I'm aware these would all require the > > > Python programme to have the user's username and password (or > > > "credentials"), which I wanted to avoid. > > > > > > No matter what you do, your web service is going to have to > > > authenticate with the remote web site. The details of that > > > authentication are going to vary with each remote web site you want to > > > connect to. > > > > Hmmm, convoluted but presuming the "login" third party site uses > > cookies... Would it be possible to use Javascript on the client "copy" > > the HTML from the third-party and then transmit it to the application > > rather than having the application trying to do a direct fetch given > > just the URL? > > > > This should keep the authentication local to the client machine. > > > > > > -- > > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > > wlfr...@....com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
Wulfraed, yes, as with David's proposal: this sounds good, but I wouldn't know the first thing about Javascript... I'm also concerned that both solutions would seem to imply distributing software (or "software") to the clients systems. Hmm. Bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
