Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-gsoc-student] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

2010-08-11 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:20:51AM -0500, Tim Donohue wrote: > On 8/10/2010 8:27 AM, Bojan Suzic wrote: > > In regards to HTTP Authentication, I have put it in the wiki and will > > investigate further how it can be done. > > For the other authentication methods, I am not sure which ones may be of

Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-gsoc-student] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

2010-08-10 Thread Stuart Lewis
On 11/08/2010, at 12:26 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:59:44AM -0500, Tim Donohue wrote: >> (1) We noticed that the REST API documentation on the wiki currently >> doesn't mention anything about Authentication. How is authentication >> expected to be handled (or being ha

Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-gsoc-student] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

2010-08-10 Thread Tim Donohue
Bojan, Thanks! Obviously there's a lot of back and forth comments, but that's a great thing. It means a lot of people are interested in the work and want to see it move forward. On 8/10/2010 8:27 AM, Bojan Suzic wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I will give answers and some comments to the previous

Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-gsoc-student] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

2010-08-10 Thread Bojan Suzic
Hi everybody, I will give answers and some comments to the previous posts in this email, as there are some common points in discussion. First, I have refreshed wiki page, changed it to be more readable and added some sections. So interested developers and others are welcomed to check and comment

Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-gsoc-student] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

2010-08-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:59:44AM -0500, Tim Donohue wrote: > (1) We noticed that the REST API documentation on the wiki currently > doesn't mention anything about Authentication. How is authentication > expected to be handled (or being handled)? Is it just Basic HTTP Auth? > Is there any

Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-gsoc-student] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin S. Clarke
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Bojan Suzic wrote: > > Yes you are right, it is not mentioned there. Currently the > authentication is done simply by providing the user name and password > as request parameters (e.g. GET /rest/items/1.json?user=xxx&pass=xxx). > If there is a a need within communi