[sldev] Re: [VWR] Web login without llmozlib

[Donovan Preston]

On Dec 18, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Tess Chu wrote:

> Thanks Robin!
>
> It looks like the code uses curl to post the credentials and parses  
> the response for the web login key.  Patching this into llstartup  
> for building without llmozlib will require a few more steps to work,  
> namely putting back the interface for which the credentials are  
> entered, or adding in command line options.  Can this replace the  
> web service we discussed in prior email threads?

Cool Robin. We would like to apply a patch to the official viewer that  
uses this code when the -login Firstname Lastname password command  
line option is passed to the viewer. Then open source developers that  
don't link to llmozlib will be able to log in the viewer from the  
command line.

I don't think this replaces a web service; I think go.php can be  
modified to take LLSD as input/output instead of multipart/mime form  
input and html output. This way the viewer can use the normal LLSD  
http client to implement Robin's patch, and helps with the eventual  
goal of allowing useful scripts to be written in pure llsdhttp.

Donovan