[Seaside] Seaside vs Streaming

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/8/20, Martin Kobetic <mkobetic at cincom.com>:
> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > WABasicAuthentication would need a completely different implementation
> > (no longer a global decoration).
>
> I would even say that any of the HTTP authentication mechanisms should be the HTTP server responsibility, not Seaside's. The HTTP server does need some back-end hookup that will actually verify the provided credentials, but it should handle all the messaging details. For example NTLM authentication takes several message exchanges.

The cool thing about it is that's it's a simple, portable solution
that works nice for simple things like WADispatcherEditor. We like
simple, portable solutions.

Cheers
Philippe

> The verification back-end could be either Seaside directly, or a separate module that both the server and Seaside talk to.
>
> Martin
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