[pmwiki-users] Re: Allowing password extraction from URI

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:16:15PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> Oh... in that case, I'd be fine with just allowing pmwiki to accept a 
> password via something like
> 
> 	http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Password?authpw=password
> 
> That should be easy for you, and I should (hopefully) easily be able to
> make pmwiki-mode pass along the header 'authpw' with the password.

Thinking about this a bit more...I'm a little confused.  Pmwiki-mode
must be already sending a number of fields along with its post request --
at minimum it has to be sending "text" and "post" (and possibly "action").
Is it really that difficult to get pmwiki-mode to also send along an 
"authpw" field as part of the post...?

Pm