[imp] Passing auth credentials to compose

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting MIlos Prudek <prudek at bvx.cz>:

>> You can use IMP's "authenticate" API method though an RPC request. You
>> would need to fetch the cookies retrieved from the RPC server and send
>> them back to the users browser.
>
> This is interesting. Is there some more detailed info available? For instance
> how do I fetch those cookies?

They're HTTP headers. You parse them out of the response like anything  
else, or you use a tool that handles cookies for you.

> And what kind of RPC it is? Long time ago I played with XML-RPC. Is this
> XML-RPC?

Your choice of xml-rpc, soap, rest-like, etc...

-chuck

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