[ciapug] XML

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

How would the remote client exchange the user name and password with the
server in a secure fashion?



On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 08:53, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > The query.php script would then query the database for the record, and
> > dynamically generate the page formatted in xml.  The only problem with
> > this is that I'd need some way to authenticate the user.
> 
> a quick search for mod_auth (on Mandrake, others are similar, I'm sure) 
> shows:
> 
> apache2-mod_auth_external
> apache2-mod_auth_kerb
> apache2-mod_auth_msfix
> apache2-mod_auth_mysql
> apache2-mod_auth_nds
> apache2-mod_auth_pgsql
> apache2-mod_auth_radius
> apache2-mod_auth_remote
> apache2-mod_auth_sdb
> apache2-mod_auth_shadow
> apache2-mod_authenticache
> apache2-mod_authz_svn
> apache2-mod_ldap
> 
> We use mod_auth_mysql in a few places, and it seems much slicker than 
> just .htaccess (for authentication, at least).  I'll leave the XML foo 
> as an exercise for the reader :)
> 
> -barry
> 
> 
> 
> > I'd also need
> > some type of application on the client side that could generate the
> > request and process the output. (I'm wondering if I could strip down 
> > apache and hack it up to do this)
> > 
> > Anyone else though of doing this? Building a set of tools to do this
> > could be a option.  The only thing I've found so far is XML-RPC 
> > 
> > http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html
> > 
> > But I haven't quite had a change to play with it.  Also, I'm really
> > uncomfortable opening up a server for RPC's....
> > 
> > 
> > Any thoughts anyone?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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