[pmwiki-users] Remote Testing of Passwordiness . . .

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Feb 8 10:10:12 CST 2007


On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:59:12PM -0500, Ben Wilson wrote:
> Greetings all. I'm looking for an automated way to remotely test
> whether a given page is password protected. What I'm looking for is a
> URL call that will return whether a given username/password
> combination, or lack thereof, is authorized. Preferably, it would be
> built into Pmwiki as opposed to a recipe.
> 
> Any ideas?

We can do something in the core, but first...what sort of result
should PmWiki return to indicate "authorized" or "not authorized"
as a result of the url call?  Do you want PmWiki to provide
a particular string, or HTTP result header, or...?

Pm



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