[Pmwiki-users] posting a comment to a password-protected page

[John Rankin]

A while ago, I asked about putting a text form on a page 
with an edit password, allowing people to post comments 
without having to know the password.

I thought that I just needed to RetrieveAuthPage with a 
"read" setting, append the comment text from the form and 
pass it to HandlePost.

But I now see that HandlePost does a RetrieveAuthPage with 
an "edit" setting, thereby triggering a password prompt.

For compatibility with possible future changes, I would 
like to avoid replicating the HandlePost function just to 
change "edit" to "read".

Does anyone know of a way to achieve what I'm after? From 
looking at the code, the solution appears to be:
- set $AuthFunction = BypassAuth; # temporarily
- BypassAuth calls BasicAuth with "read" instead of "edit"

Would this work or have I misunderstood something important?

Thanks
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JR
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John Rankin