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

[Andy]

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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