[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] authenticating over XML-RPC to implement the Blogger API

[Chris McDonough]

I don't think basic auth is going to cut it.  The API wants username and
password to be passed as arguments.  Probably need to hack a user folder
implementation.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy" <andy@agmweb.ca>
To: <njsain@antler.oursc.k12.ar.us>; <zope@zope.org>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] authenticating over XML-RPC to implement the Blogger API


> ZSyncer does user authentication over xmlrpc via xmlrpclibBasicAuth.py,
> download it and take a look.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan Sain" <njsain@antler.oursc.k12.ar.us>
> To: <zope@zope.org>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 9:19 AM
> Subject: [Zope] authenticating over XML-RPC to implement the Blogger API
>
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> > I've got a problem and was wondering if anyone on this list my have some
> > insight as to howto solve it.  I want to implement a the Blogger XML-RPC
> API to allow users
> > to add content toa Zope site (the API is here
> http://plant.blogger.com/api/index.html).  It
> > requires that theusername and password be sent as parameters in each
> function call.  is it
> > possible to hookinto Zopes authentication scheme via a external method
or
> python script?
> > I've also noticedthat it could be possible to grab the username and
> password from the
> > XML-RPC call whenZPublisher calls request.processInputs(), but I don't
> know how Zope
> > authenticates the userthis may be to late in the process to try and
fudge
> with the request
> > object.  Has anyone elsedone user authentication via parameters?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated
> > --
> >
> > Nathan Sain
> >
> >
> >
> >
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