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| author | http://emptty.myopenid.com/ <http://emptty.myopenid.com/@web> | 2009-08-29 04:28:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2009-08-29 04:28:01 -0400 |
| commit | a4c9a8461cc85377f8c88a62f2f980a0c7e2a042 (patch) | |
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Answer to Joey, and justify my text (in the source)
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn b/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn index ec7b05a51..0b2a65a66 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn @@ -1,15 +1,27 @@ I'd like to have some pages of my wiki to be only viewable by some users. -I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too. +I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have +2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too. -* I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks to a plugin similar to goto. -* When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff (that I don't understand yet). If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course. -* If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and return this as a content. +* I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks + to a plugin similar to goto. +* When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff + (that I don't understand yet). +* If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course. +* If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and + return this as a content. -Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki, and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and much more maintainable htaccess file. +Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki, +and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and +much more maintainable htaccess file. -- [[users/emptty]] > While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost > and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the > [[plugins/httpauth]] plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --[[Joey]] + +>> I'm not speaking of rendering the pages on demand, but to serve them on demand. +>> They would still be compiled the regular way; +>> I'll have another look at [[plugins/httpauth]] but I really like the openID whole idea. +>> --[[emptty]] |