From: Michael Neumann <uu9r@...>
Date: 2002-04-06T18:03:26+09:00
Subject: Re: xmlrpc4r and authentication.

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:30:28AM +0900, Kent Dahl wrote:
> 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.)

There's an easier way to go. 
Use class XMLRPC::WEBrickServlet. Then use WEBrick to add basic 
authentification!

Regards,

  Michael