[Zoo-discuss] Handling reference input files for processing Zoo-kernel

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear Rakesh,
you should be able to access data protected by basic authentication for example. You can try accessing a simple web page requiring to authenticate and use its value from the service to make sure, but there should not be any particular problem about this.

Note also that in some software, like MapMint for example, we use our own method to authenticate the users, we use COOKIE handled by the ZOO-Kernel and so the associated session file (very similar to the main.cfg except that there is only one section in it, named sess). Once the user authenticate himself from the application, it has a COOKIE returned by the server, then the cookie pass in the input reference header (as we are mainly using the POST method) to make sure the user is authorized to access the specified resource or process.

So, to summarize what I explained, the ZOO-Kernel already support different simple authentification methods.

The ZOO-Kernel should be able to provide access to both HTTP and FTP ressources.

Best regards,


> Le 3 mai 2016 à 16:39, rakesh prithiviraj <rakeshuk at outlook.com> a écrit :
> 
> Can I assume that if the data (referenced by input) is protected by some authentication, it cannot be fetched by zoo-kernel. Is that right? or does zoo-kernel supports some of the authentication configuration to fetch data from protected end points? 
> 
> I also believe that zoo-kernel supports HTTP and FTP endpoints for fetching the data. Is this correct?



Gérald Fenoy
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