Thanks for the reply, I have already read that section prior to sending my email :D
I am still unclear. I know how to handle the login when in a web browser. However when using the RPC server I just get the following response: send: 'POST /api/default/call/jsonrpc HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: 127.0.0.1:8000\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nUser-Agent: xmlrpclib.py/1.0.1 (by www.pythonware.com)\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nContent-Length: 62\r\n\r\n' send: '{"params": [1, 2], "id": 6641919632256610108, "method": "add"}' reply: 'HTTP/1.1 303 SEE OTHER\r\n' header: Set-Cookie: session_id_api=127.0.0.1-b7adcc1a-ae18-4010-a20c-12e37d3e0c55; Path=/ header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 header: Location: /api/default/user/login?_next=/api/default/call/jsonrpc header: Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:51:49 GMT header: Server: Rocket 1.2.4 Python/2.7.2+ header: Content-Length: 99 header: Connection: keep-alive Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "gluon/contrib/simplejsonrpc.py", line 106, in <lambda> return lambda *args: self.call(attr, *args) File "gluon/contrib/simplejsonrpc.py", line 121, in call verbose=self.__verbose File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1264, in request return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1312, in single_request response.msg, xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for 127.0.0.1:8000/api/default/call/jsonrpc: 303 SEE OTHER> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Alan Etkin <spame...@gmail.com> wrote: > On services and authentication there is a section in the book that > gives an example, as posted by Anthony in another thread: > > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10?search=services+and+authentication#Services-and-Authentication > > Thread on similar topic: > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/fa1ada23498e2b30/34bd1ef34aadd230?lnk=gst&q=Authentication+using+xmlrpc#34bd1ef34aadd230 > -- -- Regards, Bruce Wade http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade http://www.wadecybertech.com http://www.warplydesigned.com http://www.fitnessfriendsfinder.com