On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
On Dec 19, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
Does this mean I cannot open my browser and call the REST URL without specifying a user?
It should open up the authentication dialog where you type your username and password (or guest) the first time you request a resource.
Is that right? It sounds cumbersome and bad for easy automation when you want guest access.
Cannot we default to guest when no username/account is specified?
Thanks -Vincent
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+1
User as a resource seems quite logical... this is the same point of view as OpenID...
I think it would be easier and more natural to have the default to guest or anonymous user. When an anonymous user tries to access restricted content -> 403 If he wants to log-in, he just does: http://user:[email protected]/space/X/page/Y
for security issues, passing the user/password for each request is really not very good... I really prefer the authentication token approach...
We should mimic the basic auth and skip the pop`ul window that requires user/pass in the browser.
That is: Imply that the current user is exactly who he says he is and do not assume he could be a user with rights to a resource until he explicitly says so. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs