[Twisted-Python] Any examples of an authenticating XMLRPC server?

[Matt Goodall]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 14:15 -0500, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
>Stephen Waterbury wrote:
>...
>
>> Critiques or razberries welcomed, as long as they're
>> constructive razberries!  :)
>
>This is extremely illuminating.  The key approach/idea that I was 
>missing is this:
>
>    You can create a root web.resource.Resource() and add a child ""
>    that handles all URLs not otherwise matched by a known child.

This is incorrect. A child of "" matches the empty path segment. Most of
the time this is used to handle a URL that ends in a "/" but an empty
segment is also legitimate in the middle of a URL.

For instance, the URL "/foo/bar/" translates to segments of ("foo",
"bar", ""); "/" translates to ("",); "/foo//bar" translates to ("foo",
"", "bar").

In Nevow, you handle unmatched children by overriding locateChild(self,
ctx, segments) or, in the case of a rend.Page subclass, providing a
childFactory(self, ctx, name) method.

- Matt

>
>        This "" child handles the common web-browser case, basically
>        anything not going to your "special" directories. This child is
>        the protected Nevow portal that we all know and love; on
>        attempting to walk into it all the Nevow machinery should trigger.
>
>        Now you register your Basic-Auth-protected XMLRPC/SOAP portals
>        as parallel children of the Nevow portal, "RPC" and "SOAP". 
>        These are again, portals, so they do their own credential
>        checking, thus don't *necessarily* have to use the same cred
>        mechanism, but can if they want to.
>
>This doesn't actually do what I was *trying* to do, which was to make it 
>possible to log into the main site using Basic auth *or* the Nevow web 
>forms, but it handles what we actually need to do perfectly, so I can 
>just stop trying to do what I was trying to do :) .  I'm about to sit 
>down to implement this approach for our system.
>
>Much obliged,
>Mike
>
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