Re: [Semanticscuttle-devel] user session problems

[Mark P. <mpe...@gm...>]

Whew, ok, I either passed or failed.  Please check my work to make sure
we're on the same page.  If I failed, don't be too harsh on me.  Everything
seems to be in order with the rss feed.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Christian Weiske <cw...@cw...>wrote:

> Hello Mark,
>
>
> > > 1. The private key authenticates the user on certain areas of
> > >   SemanticScuttle - currently only on the RSS feeds. No other area.
> > > 2. To be able to use the service methods required for private RSS
> > >   feeds, we need to register the user identified by the private key
> > > as the current user.
> > > 3. The current user is stored in the session
> > > 4. To restrict privatekey access to the RSS feeds only, we need to
> > >   unregister the current user after the feed has been generated.
> > > 5. If the script crashes during RSS generation, the user does not
> > > get unregistered/unset. This means that the user will be still
> > > logged in and can access all areas although he originally only had
> > > the private key.
> > >
> > > So we need to decouple the current user from the session storage.
> > Gotcha.  About to walk into a meeting.  I think it can be done, and
> > hopefully with little pain.  Will catch up later.
>
> I fixed that in the master branch; just merge it - it should apply
> without problems.
>
>
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> Christian Weiske
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