Re: XMLDBSource and credentials

[lp...@focalpoint.com]

Patch is at http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30928

Vadim Gritsenko wrote:

> Luigi Bai wrote:
> 
>>
>> Upayavira wrote:
>>
>>> Luigi Bai wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to modify XMLDBSource to allow the URI to override the 
>>>> credential information. This would allow different users to access 
>>>> collections/resources as themselves in eXist (http://exist.sf.net).
>>>>
>>>> Any objections?
>>>
>>>
> 
> Nope. Go ahead.
> 
> Vadim
> 
> 
>>>> My first thought is to allow URIs of the form:
>>>>
>>>> xmldb:exist://user:pass@host:port/coll/coll/resource.xml
>>>>
>>> I take it there is no such definition of providing user/pass within 
>>> the XMLDB spec?
>>>
>>> Regards, Upayavira
>>>
>>
>> Authentication is handled by username and password parameters to 
>> methods on the org.xmldb.api.base.Database interface. The XMLDB spec 
>> is silent about handling userinfo in the URI itself. The 
>> org.cocoon...XMLDBSource gets around this by configuring 
>> authentication information into the <driver> element, and then passing 
>> that through to the relevant interface methods when necessary (see 
>> Bugzilla for a recent patch of that behaviour). However, that is 
>> static: only one username and password can be configured per protocol 
>> scheme (i.e.; xmldb:).
>>
>> What I'm proposing is effectively allowing just-in-time specification 
>> of username and password in <map:generate src="" /> elements.
> 
> 
> 


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