Hi hawkett,

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:11 AM, hawkett <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>   I have a question about the security of the remote_api - looking
> through the source code, I noticed that ConfigureRemoteDatastore takes
> a 'secure' parameter, which is False by default.  I assume this means
> that any data submitted via remote_api is done in plain text.  What
> about the credentials that are obtained using the auth_func() shown in
> the example?


Authentication is always performed over a secure channel, but the cookie
obtained with authentication is then transmitted in the clear if secure=True
is not specified.


>
>
>   Is the secure option supported?  When I set secure=True (in code
> that works fine when it is set to False), I get
>
> 'urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 302: Found'
>
> which I assume is a redirect to a login page.  If it is supported,
> what is the process for it use?  Thanks,


Did you set "secure: always" or "secure:optional" for the remote_api handler
in app.yaml?

-Nick Johnson


>
> Colin
> >
>


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