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Ah... thanks Birkin, good idea. I'll take a look. Kevin On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Birkin James Diana <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Kevin, > >> What is this Birkin hack of which you speak? I've been wondering how all >> these recent pieces are getting tied back to the main code4lib site... > > > For the login for <library.brown.edu/code4libcon09/proposals/>, I came up > with some python code (for the django app) that takes a submitted username > and password and posts them to the code4lib.org site, and, based on the > response, determines whether the login was successful. Ross used a version > of it for his voting site. Obviously a direct API would be better, but in > the absence of one, this does the trick. > > <http://dl.lib.brown.edu/its/software/code4lib/remote_auth.py> > > It's a little counter-intuitive, but correct (analyzing http-traffic > helped). > > Of course, code4lib.org must never, ever change its login method. ;) > > (At least not until after the conference!!) > > I got in the habit of doing this kind of thing in order to create mini-APIs > for vendor products that don't have APIs but have websites. Hope this is > useful to others, given its fragility. > > (By the way, I didn't actually get this email, someone let me know about it > -- anyone else sporadically getting code4lib emails?) > > -b > > --- > Birkin James Diana > Programmer, Integrated Technology Services > Brown University Library > [log in to unmask] > -- There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who know better.