Re: [pear-webmaster] I think your xmlrpc methods are psychic.
| From: | greg at chiaraquartet dot net | Date: | Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:34:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [pear-webmaster] I think your xmlrpc methods are psychic. | ||
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Quoting Martin Jansen <mj@php.net>:
> On Tue Dec 21, 2004 at 04:3754PM -0500, Greg Beaver wrote:
> > Implementing who's-who would be really, really easy. However, I wonder
> > if there is a secure cert for pear.php.net? This would be a good use
> > for donated funds, so that https://pear.php.net can be
> > used with HTTP
> > auth to do secure stuff. This will even allow remote upload of
> > releases, and remote validation, and so on.
>
> This is somewhere on my todo list (together with finally upgrading to
> PHP 5). Enabling SSL support is technically no problem, but we need to
> figure out if we want to go with an unsigned certificate or not.
> (Getting it signed will cost money unless a CA is willing to do it for
> free.)
>
> Concerning a switch to REST (which I like) I'm a bit afraid about
> backwards compatibility: If we do not want to exclude old installers
> from PEAR, we will also have to maintain the XML-RPC interface for quite
> some time, no?
Yes. The idea will be that the old installers will not be changing any time
soon, so the xml-rpc interface will simply remain as it is.
All new features would happen in REST.
Greg