Yes, most REST patterns I've seen are handled either by http basic auth or else request signing. Either option requires handling that on each call.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Michele Comitini < michele.comit...@gmail.com> wrote: > REST is stateless so you should not rely on session, hence you can use > > auth.settings.allow_basic_login = True > > see here > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10#Access-Control > > for proper (as per RFC) authentication challenge with realm use: > > @auth.basich(basic_auth_real=<True|"any string">) > > An alternative is to pass an argument or a parameter with authencation > info and use > auth.login_bare > > Anyway you must pass authentication info with each call since being the > service stateless the server has no way to recognize the client. > > mic > > > 2013/5/27 Ray (a.k.a. Iceberg) <iceb...@qq.com> > >> Hi Alec, >> >> On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:03:04 AM UTC+8, Alec Taylor wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:20 AM, David Marko <dma...@tiscali.cz> wrote: >>> > +1 from me having this. Btw. On client side i'm using AngularJS and >>> Trigger.io (instead of PhoneGap) >>> >>> I've been looking around, and will have one of the following setups: >>> >>> - *AngularJS <http://angularjs.org/>* with >>> *BarristerRPC<http://barrister.bitmechanic.com/> >>> * >>> - *BackboneJS <http://backbonejs.org/>* with >>> *Backbone.Rpc<https://github.com/asciidisco/Backbone.Rpc> >>> * >>> - *JQuery mobile* <http://jquerymobile.com/> with >>> *jquery-jsonrpc*<https://github.com/datagraph/jquery-jsonrpc>(or plain >>> JSON.stringify) >>> >>> All within a *PhoneGap <http://phonegap.com/>* (*Apache >>> Cordova<http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/> >>> *) app using the* Facebook connect >>> plugin<https://github.com/davejohnson/phonegap-plugin-facebook-connect> >>> * for authentication (for graceful downgrade from Facebook mobile >>> app<https://www.facebook.com/mobile/>to Facebook >>> website auth <https://touch.facebook.com>). >>> >>> I should have a PoC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_Concept> on >>> August 2 with a full backend written in web2py and two frontends (one in >>> web2py views; the other in one of the above frameworks). >>> >>> Subsequently I'll release it under a full open-source license onto >>> Bitbucket. I'll post to the web2py list with link + slides when the repo is >>> live >>> >> >> Sorry for late response. I am a web2py veteran who dives into restful >> world only recently. Do you have any finding to share about the restful >> authentication in web2py? Thanks in advance! >> >> Regards, >> Ray >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/FyxbO0WGMhU/unsubscribe?hl=en. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.