[xwiki-users] XWiki REST authentication

Hello folks, XWiki REST authentication can be BASIC authentication or XWiki browser sessions. Found XWIKI-3268 (http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3268) which stated the same. However is there a possibility to add username/password used by the XWiki users into the HTTPClient authentication methods. At present, BASIC authentication would mean creating a username/password again for the users. And relying on cookies mechanism requires that the XWiki user should be logged into XWiki through a browser before s/he can make REST requests. Either ways, an http client won't be able to authenticate users without making them put an extra effort to login manually somewhere. Please let me know your views on this one & If there is a work around to this. Thank you guys. Regards, Dilipkumar Jadhav