Closed Bug 376292 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Joey Server - Support Basic Auth or equiv. so that RSS will work

Categories

(Mozilla Labs :: Joey, defect)

Product:
Mozilla Labs
Component:
Joey
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: dougt, Assigned: clouserw)

Details

(Whiteboard: marked_as_wfm_due_to_project_retirement) 

If we plan on allowing third party RSS readers to work (and if we want to support RSS), these clients will need to authenticate.  Currently, the only authentication is via the web interface.  We should add basic auth over SSL.
wil, can you investigate?
Assignee: dougt → clouserw
wil, any ideas?
I think mod_auth_mysql (http://modauthmysql.sourceforge.net/) would work for this.  I'm adding oremj to the CC list to see if IT has any opinions on the module or alternatives.

As far as the actual implementation - how do you expect this to work with the normal form auth?  This module will appear before any login forms, which effectively makes the login forms useless.  A way to avoid that would be to have a unique address for rss+mysqlauth vs. rss+formauth, but that isn't very cool...
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: PC → All
Will something like this work 'http://www.php.net/features.http-auth'?
(In reply to comment #4)
> Will something like this work 'http://www.php.net/features.http-auth'?
> 

That looks awesome - I can look into that once dougt and I determine some logistics.  Thanks oremj.
Summary: Support Basic Auth or equiv. so that RSS will work → Joey Server - Support Basic Auth or equiv. so that RSS will work
Joey has been retired.  Thanks for participating.

http://joey.labs.mozilla.com/
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Whiteboard: marked_as_wfm_due_to_project_retirement
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