From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T02:30:28+09:00
Subject: xmlrpc4r and authentication.

Hi.

I've been toying around with xmlrpc4r abit lately, and it looks quite
lovely.

However, I'm not too used to XML-RPC in general, so I'm unsure what is
the best way of doing authorization over it. I'm not setting up a public
service, but using it to communicate between seperate programs, where
the others are most likely going to be Java programs.

I've subclassed the XMLRPC::Server and added a check on machine/domain
name in the request_handler. Now I'd like to use the basic
authentication too.(which is implemented for client, but I can't see it
in the doc for any of the servers.)

So, what do I do and where do I do it? Messing inside the
request_handler I found that
	request['Authorization']=='Basic YWJjOmRlZg=='
for user 'abc' with password 'def', but it made me feel quite like a dog
that finally caught a car... "Now what?"


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