[squeak-dev] https & woocommerce; basicAuth etc?

Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 20:01:47 UTC 2018


Are you using WebClient?  It is actually documented int he help system,
check it out, especially the Authentication section. It does basic and
digest authentication, apparently.

-cbc

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:59 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to be able to access my WooCommerce plugin stuff from Squeak
> and it's tantalisingly close to working. Part of the problem is that I'm
> just not very familiar with how http socketty stuff works - enough that I'm
> sure I don't know the right things to search for to get where I want.
>
> I *can* talk to the 'software add-on' to woocommerce and do things like
> generate software keys, check validity etc. which is good; it shows that I
> can get through using https (at least I think so - debugging seems to
> indicate SSL getting used and checked) BUT I can't do the more basic WC
> stuff that requires some authorisation. I'll admit that it puzzles me that
> the add-on doesn't need authorisation but that's how it works.
>
> So, can anyone point me to info or code that handles the 'basicAuth' - or
> indeed any  other authorisation - for http sockets? A guide of the level of
> 'http sockets and authorisation for dummies' wouldn't hurt either!
>
> I did spot 'zinc' whilst floundering around. It seems rather old, and that
> doesn't necessarily mean bad but may mean borken enough to not work in any
> recent image. It might even have already been folded in?
>
> Help me Obi-Woo Commercebi, you're my only socket!
>
> tim
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