I don't know much about this, but I thought repeating sending the username and password was frowned upon. Why is this a better approach than the session/login approach?
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Cédric Krier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I propose to change the authentication mechanism used in XML-RPC protocols. > Currently, it requires to call "login" function to retreive a user id and a > sesssion and pass this parameters at each function call. > My suggestion is to use the standard authentication of HTTP (first the Basic) > so the username and password will be passed in the header (like for WebDAV). > > So the example in http://code.google.com/p/tryton/wiki/RemoteCalls will > become: > > s = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy ('http://user:passw...@localhost:8069/try') > > -- > Cédric Krier > > B2CK SPRL > Rue de Rotterdam, 4 > 4000 Liège > Belgium > Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 > Email/Jabber: [email protected] > Website: http://www.b2ck.com/ > -- [email protected] mailing list
