[OSM-dev] API suggestion - "authorise"?
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Sat Nov 17 10:39:52 GMT 2007
In message <200711170905.18363.nick at hogweed.org>
Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
> Doesn't look like you can do this at the moment but what would be good to
> have in the API is an "authorise" call which will do nothing but take a
> username and password and return either 200 OK if OK, or 401 if invalid.
> This would make it easier for client sites which use the API to perform
> modifications to add an OSM login, as the user could get instant feedback
> as to whether the login was incorrect, as opposed to waiting until they
> actually edit something.
You certainly can do it - both trac and the forum make use of it.
In principle any API call will do as you will get a 401 response if
the credentials you provide are no good.
The recommended way is to use /api/0.5/user/details which will return
a small XML document giving some details of the user, and will obviously
fails if the HTTP authentication credentials are not valid.
Tom
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