Is there any simpler way or any example of this or something similar anywhere that I could use as an example?.
On May 13, 11:32 am, cjrh <caleb.hatti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 13, 10:06 am, Benigno <bca...@albendas.com> wrote: > > > We have made an app with web2py to present data from a home-automated > > home as a web service. There is a certain hardware at the home that > > sends all the information that transverses the bus into our server, > > and from there on, we process and present the data using web2py. > > I am doing something similar. My client is a daemon process. Upon > my first contact with the server, the daemon client provides an > authentication key. This is checked in the web2py DB. If found/ > valid, a session number is returned to the client (inside a cookie). > The client stores this cookie, and returns it to the web2py server, as > a cookie header, on each subsequent access. This maintains the > session. So far, this strategy appears to be working well. All > functions in the controller used by the daemon process have an > "IsLoggedIn" decorator, which checks first. Depending on the > specific details of your situation, you could extend the valid time of > the session from the default value. I don't know the value of that > default offhand.
