[Yanel-development] No open usecase to support authentication

[Andreas Wuest]

Hi

On 23.11.2006 17:38 Uhr, Michael Wechner wrote:

> Andreas Wuest wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> Why is there no open usecase which lets us authenticate a client upon 
>> its request?
> 
> 
> at the moment these are regular GET requests, e.g. hugo.xhtml, but on a 
> second thought I think it does make
> sense to introduce a open usecase and add this to the API of the 
> "Readable Resource Interface".

What I really care about is that we can do authentication upon such a 
request, such that we can protect resources not only by checkout but 
also by open.

Note that the goal of "checkout" is to lock the resource, and performs 
authentication as a side-effect only (because we need to know who 
acquired the lock).

If we don't want to lock the resource, but still require authentication, 
there is no way to do this up until now (IIUC).

-- 
Kind regards,
Andi