[thesite] Back to the Drawing board for UEUE?

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Nov 10 12:03:51 CST 2001


Mark Nickel wrote on 9/11/01 5:02 am

>I think that all our security paranoid, no matter how justified (which I
>believe is valid), is causing us to question heavily the possibility of
>a cookie-based UEUE.  Remember, the O'Reilly solution worked because all
>subsite where directly controlled by O'Reilly.  In our case, we are
>planning on opening this up to sites not directly under our control.

I think that is the one single core stumbling block of a cookie
solution.

Unless we leave out meo of course.

>Please correct me if I'm wrong, I've a thick skin, but won't a XML-RPC
>based solution take longer to implement because of the experience level
>of us?  I've never really done a XML-RPC application.  I totally
>understand how to do it, but I've never actually coded something
>before...

Possibly so, but as we're not on VC-specified timescales, does
this matter? And isn't an opportunity to learn A Good Thing?

Cheers
Martin

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