Comments on: Drop-Dead Simple Authentication for Microapps http://www.plainlystated.com/2010/03/drop-dead-simple-authentication-for-microapps/ Work, play, & projects Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pdeschen http://www.plainlystated.com/2010/03/drop-dead-simple-authentication-for-microapps/#comment-59 pdeschen Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:21 +0000 http://plainlystated.com/blog/?p=7#comment-59 Just wondering why someone would favor such instead of relying on http basic auth mechanism? Through nginx in front of thin/rack/whatever and restrict access within nginx location rules? http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpAuthBasicModule On the client side, authentication drills down to a mere ajax call http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/05/jquery-ajax-and-rest-http-basic-authentication-done-deal/ Just a thought ;-) Cheers Just wondering why someone would favor such instead of relying on http basic auth mechanism? Through nginx in front of thin/rack/whatever and restrict access within nginx location rules?

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpAuthBasicModule

On the client side, authentication drills down to a mere ajax call

http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/05/jquery-ajax-and-rest-http-basic-authentication-done-deal/

Just a thought ;-)

Cheers

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