[railroad-dev] auth_url

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Julian Davison wrote:
> Tom Smith wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to get railroad up and running using
>> Plone.  I am stuck at auth_url needed by clientadm.py.
>>  What is it?
> 
> It's a callback to the Railroad Service in your Plone instance.
> In the test setup I'm working on here I've used
>     http://127.0.0.1:9673/cdb/portal_railroad/cdb/authorize
> where 'cdb' is my Plone instance within Zope, 'portal_railroad'
> is the RailroadTool instance and the second 'cdb' in the URL
> is the Plone Railroad Service instance for the repository.
> 'authorize' is the actual auth handler.
> 
> Does that help?
> I worked backwards from the code to locate this, which works
> nicely :)

Correct, Railroad relies on callbacks into the CMS - especially this one, used 
for authentication.

Note to self: Railroad needs more documentation in this regard... (although I 
thought this was mentioned somewhere). Oh well, what else is new ;)

> Tomorrow I'm
> hoping to get the time to check out the current state and see if
> it's any better.

Railroad is still under heavy development, although it also is in use on some 
sites already. Actually, there's potentially some newer development ahead in the 
near future. So, any of your feedback is indeed very welcome to improve Railroad 
further!


regards,
jw

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Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
jw at infrae.com