[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Best way to authenticate users against Evergreen

[Niles Ingalls]

Mark,
I tested this again the Evergreen Indiana server, and it worked just  
fine - Niles


On Feb 22, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Mark Jordan wrote:

> OK, I've got the json gateway working, based on Niles' code (thanks  
> again). However, I'd like to get the XML-RPC approach working as  
> well, since not all PHP installations have curl enabled. Maybe I'm  
> missing something obvious, but the following PHP code returns a 500  
> error from http://demo.gapines.org. The code does work against a  
> test XML-RPC server I have running on my laptop (which just prints  
> back whatever you pass it), so I'm assuming that the values I've  
> plugged in from Evergreen's collections.pl are not correct in some  
> way. Here's the PHP code:
>
> <?php
>
> // Gets seed for generating md5 hash of user password. Argument is
> // the patron's username.
>
> $username = 'patron';
> $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('open-ils.auth.authenticate.init',  
> array('patron'));
> $context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(
>    'method' => "POST",
>    'header' => "Content-Type: text/xml",
>    'content' => $request
> )));
> $file = file_get_contents("https://demo.gapines.org/xml-rpc/open-ils.auth 
> ", false, $context);
> $response = xmlrpc_decode($file);
> if (xmlrpc_is_fault($response)) {
>    trigger_error("xmlrpc: $response[faultString]  
> ($response[faultCode])");
> } else {
>    print_r($response);
> }
> ?>
>
> Can anyone see what I'm missing? One possible problem is that in  
> collections.pl, arguments in the RPC request are passed through the  
> Perl RPC::XML module's smart_encode function. I tried replacing  
> 'patron' in my code above with '<string>patron</string>', but the  
> demo.gapines.org gateway still returns a 500 response.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Jordan
> Head of Library Systems
> W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
> Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023
> mjordan at sfu.ca